Bethlehem Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 October 1998. Chapel.
Bethlehem Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- riven-portal-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Llanelli MP: Dame Nia Griffith (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1998
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Bethlehem Baptist Chapel, Pwll, Llanelli, Llanelli Rural
- OS grid reference
- SN 473 010
- Coordinates
- 51.68758, -4.20954
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bethlehem Baptist Chapel is a simple classical style chapel with a gable entry, built with irregularly coursed rock-faced sandstone masonry and ashlar quoins, including a later vestry block on the left. The sides and rear of the building are rendered, and it features a slate roof with barges supported by painted brackets, along with cast-iron rainwater goods. The chapel has two storeys of fenestration, with sash windows above and below that are linked by sunk panels. The windows typically have 12-pane sashes, but the upper sashes of the upper windows are modified to include a circle that aligns with the window head. The vestry has margin-light arched head windows.
At the front, there are cast-iron railings and matching gates, with large cast-iron gateposts at the chapel entrance and smaller ones at the vestry entrance.
Inside, there is a plain anteroom with symmetrical doors leading into the chapel and stairs to the gallery. The seating is arranged in four blocks, with seats on either side of the pulpit facing inward. The chapel features a prominent pulpit with a two-tier hardwood panelled front adorned with Ionic pilasters. There is a gilded and painted metal screen on either side of the pulpit, and symmetrical pulpit stairs that have similar metalwork beneath the handrails. The wall behind the pulpit consists of large panels with hardwood pilasters and an entablature, topped by a central arch. The broad-panelled gallery front includes a central clock and is supported by seven cast-iron columns. A large decorative plaster roundel is located at the center of the ceiling.
To the left, there is a later vestry and schoolroom, with the schoolroom still retaining its original fixed desks.
Local climate
Bethlehem 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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