Zion C. M. Chapel, Schoolroom and House, with Railings and Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 March 1997. Chapel, schoolroom, house. 1 related planning application.
Zion C. M. Chapel, Schoolroom and House, with Railings and Gate
- WRENN ID
- old-moat-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1997
- Type
- Chapel, schoolroom, house
- Address
- Zion C. M. Chapel, Schoolroom and House, with Railings and Gate, Begelly Village, Kilgetty, Kilgetty/Begelly
- OS grid reference
- SN 118 075
- Coordinates
- 51.73542, -4.72686
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a chapel, schoolroom, and house complex dating from the 18th century, constructed of local rubble stonework, rendered and dry-pebble-dashed to the front elevation. The chapel is nearly square and parallel to the street, with a slate roof. The front elevation features a central door flanked by windows, all with round heads, white-painted dressings, emphasised keystones, and stones above the impost level. The double doors are vertically boarded, with a fanlight featuring deep section glazing bars above. The windows contain small panes of glass with margin lights in amber, blue, or red. A large, oblong tablet above the door displays the name and dates within an oval. The gabled end walls and rear elevation are rendered and unpainted. Rear windows are similar to the front, but lacking the dressed stone surrounds.
Attached to the right of the chapel is a schoolroom, also parallel to the street, with a vertically boarded door and margin-light sash windows. To the right again is a one-storey house, slightly set back from the other buildings.
The complex is fronted by white-painted low stone piers, a central iron gate, and two lengths of iron railings on a low wall, with similar piers at the ends. Railings of a slightly different pattern front the schoolroom.
Inside the chapel, a small, framed and glazed porch provides entry, with chamfered framing, frosted glass, and coloured margin lights. A pulpit is located at the north gable end, set within an arched-headed wall recess, approached by twin stairs. A small table stands nearby. The chapel interior features two blocks of pews in the front half and three ramped blocks in the rear, with a contemporary American pedal-organ centrally located in the rear. Two more recent organs are positioned at the front of the room.
The schoolroom has a plain interior. The house is planned with a central entrance and lobby leading to two rooms, a small bedroom, and a scullery in a rear lean-to. The rooms are accessed by bead-jointed boarded doors and ledges, and are separated from the central lobby by a boarded partition.
Local climate
Zion C. M. Chapel, Schoolroom and House, with Railings and Gate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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