Chapel at Llandovery College is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 June 2004. Chapel.
Chapel at Llandovery College
- WRENN ID
- south-flint-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 June 2004
- Type
- Chapel
- OS grid reference
- SN 765 344
- Coordinates
- 51.99493, -3.79999
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The chapel at Llandovery College is a Gothic-style building, constructed with painted roughcast and featuring slate roofs behind parapets and coped shouldered gables. It has lancet windows with patterned leaded glazing. Notable architectural elements include a string course below the parapets, moulded parapet coping, an east end cross finial, and two-step gabled buttresses positioned between the bays and at the corners.
The chapel consists of a four-bay nave, small transepts, and a single bay chancel. The west end features three stepped lancets above a gabled porch with a pointed arched entry. The north side has two triple stepped lancets and three buttresses. The small north transept includes diagonal two-step buttresses and five tiny lancets set high on the west and east sides. The north chancel has three closely set lancets and a pointed door with a cambered head.
On the south side of the nave, there is a blank first bay followed by three similar three-light windows. The south transept projects less than the north transept and has a small bellcote on the east shoulder with a circular chimney attached. It also features stepped gabled diagonal buttresses and a stepped three-light window at the south end. The south chancel mirrors the north with lancets, diagonal angle buttresses, and a stepped five-light window at the east.
The interior has not been inspected but includes a large abstract east window created in 1991 by Amber Hescott and David Pearl of Swansea.
Local climate
Chapel at Llandovery College sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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