Capel Salem is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 February 1999. Chapel.
Capel Salem
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1999
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Capel Salem, Rhandirmwyn, Llandovery, Llanfair-Ar-Y-Bryn
- OS grid reference
- SN 777 439
- Coordinates
- 52.08031, -3.78572
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Capel Salem is a former chapel and chapel house, now combined into one building. It was constructed from rubble stone and features a slate roof with flat eaves. The lateral facade includes large pointed windows with cut sandstone voussoirs and stone sills, comprising two long central windows and two shorter outer gallery lights positioned higher up. The glazing is small-paned with intersecting bars in the pointed heads; the main windows have 32 panes below the heads, while the gallery lights have 16 panes. A raised stone band below the sill level of the gallery lights likely dates back to the original 1829 structure. A plaque in the center reads: 'Salem Capel Trefnyddion Calfinaidd A Adeiladwyd yn 1829 Ail Adeiladwyd 1852'. Doors are located on either side of the central windows, not aligned with the gallery lights, and are cambered-headed with cut sandstone voussoirs, featuring six panels. The corners of the facade have tooled cornerstones up to a certain height, likely marking the 1829 eaves line. There is a lean-to on the left end, and the rear has two 12-pane sash windows on each floor.
Adjoining to the right is a later and altered house, possibly originally a vestry or stable. This structure is roughcast, two stories high, with two pointed windows on the first floor, and a door and window below. It has a brick stack at the south end and a porch leading into the first floor level, with some exposed painted brick at the rear.
The gallery, presumably from 1852, is five-sided and supported by four plain iron columns. It features a painted grained front with a deep cornice beneath plain vertical panels and a moulded top rail. Narrow lobbies provide access to the enclosed gallery stairs. The plaster ceiling includes an acanthus center rose. The pulpit was located on the front wall, but the furnishings on the ground floor have been removed.
Local climate
Capel Salem sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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