Capel Y Groes is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 November 1995. House - terrace.
Capel Y Groes
- WRENN ID
- vast-storey-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1995
- Type
- House - terrace
- Address
- Capel Y Groes, Cilycwm, SA20 0SS
- OS grid reference
- SN 752 400
- Coordinates
- 52.04453, -3.82037
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Capel Y Groes and Ty Capel is a chapel built in 1859, featuring a simple Gothic style. The building is constructed from colourwashed rubble stone and has a low-pitched slate roof with fretted bargeboards. The gable front includes three pointed windows, with the middle window being broader and taller than the others. Below these windows is a tall pointed doorway, flanked by smaller pointed windows that are larger than the narrow lights on either side of the central triplet. The windows are designed with two lights and a thick Y-shaped centre mullion, and the heads of each light have Y glazing bars, except for the narrower flanking windows. The doorway consists of paired 2-panel doors topped with a pointed overlight featuring intersecting glazing bars. A date plaque on the gable reads "Capel Y Groes 1859." The sides of the chapel have three windows each, similar in style but with brick heads.
Inside, there is a three-sided boarded ceiling and a single gallery at the entry end supported by a painted iron column. The gallery front features classical details, including brackets, guttae, and long and short panels. A clock inside the chapel is inscribed with the opening date of March 8th, 1860. The pews are very low and have panelled backs, and there is a simple Gothic panelled pulpit. The chapel's front court is enclosed by colourwashed rubble walls that curve around the sides of the south iron gates.
Local climate
Capel Y Groes sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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