Greenfield Baptist Chapel,Including Gates & Railings To Enclosure is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 March 1992. Chapel.
Greenfield Baptist Chapel,Including Gates & Railings To Enclosure
- WRENN ID
- scattered-corner-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Llanelli MP: Dame Nia Griffith (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1992
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Greenfield Baptist Chapel,Including Gates & Railings To Enclosure, Llanelli
- OS grid reference
- SN 505 000
- Coordinates
- 51.67962, -4.16271
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Greenfield Baptist Chapel is a Baptist chapel built in 1858 by Henry Rogers of Llanelli. It is constructed from snecked rubble stone with Bath stone dressings and features a slate roof. The chapel is designed in an Italianate Classical style, showcasing a pedimented northwest facade in Roman Doric style, complete with giant pilasters, a triglyph frieze, a mutule cornice, and a deep stone pediment. The pediment displays an oval plaque that reads 'Greenfield Baptist Chapel 1858'.
The facade includes arch-headed windows situated between pilasters, featuring pilaster jambs, moulded imposts, impost string courses, moulded arches, and keystones, along with sill bands. The outer windows are long, while the center window is shorter, positioned above a Roman Doric projecting flat porch supported by two columns, with pilaster responds and a triglyph cornice.
The original long sash windows, which had marginal and center narrow panes, have been replaced with plastic. The south side of the chapel has five similar long arched windows and a stone mutule cornice, with five basement sash windows below. The north side mirrors this design but retains the original glazing.
Surrounding the chapel is a low rubble wall topped with cast-iron coping and spearhead railings, which are set between cast-iron Gothic gatepiers made by Thomas and Clement of Llanelli. The railings extend along Station Road and Murray Street, in front of the site of a former Sunday School built in 1887 by G Morgan, which has since been demolished.
Inside, the chapel features a relatively simple layout with a four-sided gallery that was inserted in 1861 and 1867, supported by four iron columns. The gallery front is pierced cast-iron, and there is a plain pulpit adorned with silvered twisted metal columns and metal flowers on the rail. An organ, built by Harrison of Durham, was added to the south end in 1902.
Local climate
Greenfield Baptist Chapel,Including Gates & Railings To Enclosure 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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