Capel Libanus (Baptist Chapel) is a Grade II* listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 July 1999. Chapel.
Capel Libanus (Baptist Chapel)
- WRENN ID
- patient-parapet-nightshade
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1999
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Capel Libanus (Baptist Chapel), Waunclunda, Llanwrda, Llansadwrn
- OS grid reference
- SN 681 319
- Coordinates
- 51.97011, -3.92006
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Capel Libanus is a Baptist chapel built from rubble stone and topped with a slate roof featuring overhanging plain verges. The gable facade includes two small high-level arched windows and an arched central door, all adorned with stone voussoirs. The windows are small-paned with intersecting glazing bars at the heads, and the door has a similar glazing design in its fanlight. The entrance features double flush-panelled doors. The north side wall is windowless and has flat boarded eaves. The rear gable boasts two large arched windows, also with stone voussoirs, which are two-light windows with a broad mullion and Y-tracery heads. These windows have small-paned lights with Y-tracery at the arch heads. The south side, facing the road, has a late 19th-century added lean-to vestry and schoolroom, accessed by 11 steps leading to a door at the eastern end. This side also features three upper windows with four panes each, a central door on the ground floor, and two small four-pane casements, all with brick surrounds.
Inside, the chapel has a fine interior with a three-sided gallery supported by two sets of two columns. The gallery features vertical panels painted over a simple cornice with curved angles. There is attractive late 19th or early 20th-century stencil decoration on the columns, cornice, and panels. The seating includes three blocks of painted panelled box pews, with larger family pews located at the front center and inward-facing pews on either side of the pulpit. The pulpit and great seat, both from the late 19th century, are made of pitch pine. The lobby contains two six-panel doors and a square twelve-pane window in between. The ceiling, also from the late 19th century, is boarded and features embossed paper in panels.
Local climate
Capel Libanus (Baptist Chapel) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow 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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