Park Congregational Chapel, including enclosure railings is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 March 1992. House.
Park Congregational Chapel, including enclosure railings
- WRENN ID
- fossil-groin-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Llanelli MP: Dame Nia Griffith (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1992
- Type
- House
- Address
- Park Congregational Chapel, including enclosure railings, Llanelli
- OS grid reference
- SN 506 001
- Coordinates
- 51.68017, -4.16148
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Park Congregational Chapel, built between 1864 and 1865 by Lander and Bedells of London, is a Gothic-style structure made of blue lias rubble stone with Bath stone dressings and features a steep slate roof. The chapel includes a north porch tower topped with a spire that rises to 104 feet. The sides have seven windows and are supported by closely spaced buttresses, while a chancel was added to the south end around 1909 to 1911.
The entrance front showcases a slender central tower with diagonal buttresses reaching up to the second stage. It features a large gabled ashlar doorway with shafting, carved capitals, and a moulded and cusped arch. Above this, the gable leads to a triplet of tall lancet windows with ringed shafts, leaf capitals, and linked hoodmoulds. The upper stage is slightly recessed and has an octofoil roundel on each face, with the upper angles cut back to support the octagonal spire. The spire's short ashlar octagonal base includes roundels on each face and a moulded leaf cornice beneath the spire. The main church gable is coped and adorned with square corner finials, and each side features three-light pointed windows above lean-to projections with canted outer angles and a triplet of pointed stepped stair lights.
The side elevations contain 2-light basement mullion windows and 2-light pointed main windows, which have bands at the sills and where the arches spring. At the rear, the later chancel has a tall blank south gable and a gabled projection to the east with a plate traceried 2-light window.
Surrounding the chapel are circa 1895 spearhead railings with cast-iron Gothic gatepiers designed by Thomas and Clement of Llanelli, extending from the front down Inkerman Street to provide rear access to the schools.
Inside, the chapel features a five-sided boarded low 7-bay roof and a west gallery supported by two iron columns. There are two stained glass windows on the west side, dating from 1884 and 1909, and three on the east side from 1919, 1934, and 1974. The chancel includes an organ at the south end and much early 20th-century Gothic panelling.
Local climate
Park Congregational Chapel, including enclosure railings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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