Moriah Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 March 1992. Chapel.

Moriah Baptist Chapel

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Llanelli MP: Dame Nia Griffith (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 March 1992
Type
Chapel
Address
Moriah Baptist Chapel, Llanelli
OS grid reference
SN 504 001
Coordinates
51.68053, -4.16396
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Moriah Baptist Chapel is a 19th-century building, completed in 1870. The front features raised ashlar plinths, quoins, a sill course below long arched windows, and a heavy cornice. The upper mouldings of the pediment are made of painted timber, which also displays an oval painted plaque stating 'Moriah Baptist Chapel 1870'. The sill course is interrupted by two arched doorways with ashlar surrounds and keystones, leading to panelled doors. Above these doors is a broad arched window, which has a keystone, rusticated jambs, and timber mullions that divide a tripartite window with marginal glazing bars and arched heads. The long side windows also feature similar arched heads, keystones, and rusticated jambs, along with marginal glazing bars. The side elevations each have four long windows in ashlar surrounds, but without rustication, and include a sill course and moulded timber eaves. The basement has four glazing bar sash windows with stone voussoirs, and there is a rendered two-storey rear projection.

Inside, the chapel boasts a fine interior that is galleried on all four sides, featuring ornate curved and pierced cast-iron fronts that sweep down behind the pulpit. There are three cast-iron columns arranged in a 3 x 3 formation beneath the gallery. The pulpit is flanked by steps on either side, adorned with cast-iron gilded balusters and a carved panelled front. The interior includes a plain 'set fawr', a coved ceiling with exceptionally rich plaster panelling, and four rose vents. An organ is situated in a wide recess of the west end gallery.

Local climate

Moriah Baptist Chapel 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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