Baptist Chapel, including Sunday School forecourt railings & gates. is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 August 1991. Chapel, Sunday School.

Baptist Chapel, including Sunday School forecourt railings & gates.

WRENN ID
half-pewter-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 August 1991
Type
Chapel, Sunday School
Address
Baptist Chapel, including Sunday School forecourt railings & gates., Newcastle Emlyn
OS grid reference
SN 307 404
Coordinates
52.03659, -4.46887
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Baptist Chapel, built in 1875, is designed in an Italianate classical style. It features unpainted stucco with painted mouldings and a front porch. The broad pedimented front includes a keyed roundel in the pediment, long arched side windows, and a fine Roman Doric porch with a triplet of arched windows above. The porch is wide, supported by paired columns on each side, with pilaster responds, a full entablature, and a pediment, all raised on three steps. The double doors have a stained glass overlight. The windows are set in moulded surrounds with keystones, with the long outer windows and the centre window of the triplet featuring a timber centre mullion and traceried heads, while the outer lights of the triplet are shorter and narrower single lights. All windows are adorned with attractive early 20th-century patterned stained glass.

The chapel has three-window sides and a two-window end wall, both featuring similar long arched windows, along with a matching end-wall pediment. Attached and set back to the right is a later Sunday School, which has a pedimented door and arched windows on either side. The forecourt is enclosed by handsome spearhead iron railings on low slate-coped rubble walls, with matching gates and an overthrow between cast-iron panelled piers. The rubble stone piers at each end are capped by cast-iron palmettes.

Inside, the chapel boasts a fine interior that is galleried on three sides, supported by three cast-iron columns with Gothic capitals. The ceiling is flat with a moulded cornice, an oval centre, and five plaster rosettes. The gallery front is panelled with arched panels, and the angles are rounded. A fine panelled pulpit features curving steps, rounded angles, a patterned front panel, and a high arched back panel set in an ornate carved frame with a heavily moulded cornice and a scrolled pediment.

Local climate

Baptist Chapel, including Sunday School forecourt railings & gates. sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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