Capel Mair, including forecourt railings is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 June 2001. Chapel.
Capel Mair, including forecourt railings
- WRENN ID
- leaning-landing-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 11 June 2001
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Capel Mair, including forecourt railings, St Clears, Carmarthen, St. Clears, SA33 4DZ
- OS grid reference
- SN 279 158
- Coordinates
- 51.81494, -4.49713
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This chapel, dating from 1862, is a two-storeyed, stuccoed building with a gable front. It has a slated roof and arched-headed windows with slate sills resting on corbels. The facade is articulated by giant pilasters with plain moulded capitals, which support an entablature on either side of a rusticated central arch. A plaque below the arch reads "Capel Mair. 1862." The central entrance has arched, panelled double doors in a moulded surround, with a large keystone above the arch. Above the doors is a broad, triple window with an arched centre light flanked by arched side lights, all in a cambered-headed surround with a similar keystone. A sill band extends outward to the flanking pilasters. The bays to the sides have a tall, narrow window vertically bisected, in a moulded surround with a keystone; sills are carried out to the flanking pilasters. The side walls feature similar tall, narrow, arched-headed windows that are recessed and lack moulded surrounds.
The interior, also from 1862, is double-aisled and features a three-sided raked gallery and box pews made of pitch pine. There is a pulpit and other furnishings. A lobby has a tiled floor, a coloured glass window, and four-panelled timber doors leading to the chapel and gallery. The box pews have long, horizontally panelled rears and vertically panelled doors. The raked gallery has curved corners and is supported by seven plain, painted cast iron columns with foliate capitals. The gallery front has long, horizontal panels separated by pilasters bearing narrow, arch-headed vertical panels, beneath a bracketed cornice. A clock is positioned opposite the pulpit, and there is a three-sided deacon’s seat. The ornate pulpit has flanking stairs with turned balusters and similar balusters along the sides of the serpentine-curved platform, with plain slats below. The pulpit’s centre has three vertical panels of darker wood with light gilded decoration, while the rear has a large plaster arch springing from consoles on plain pilasters with a light, painted floral design, containing three commemorative brass plaques.
The boarded ceiling includes a plain painted cornice. A central rectangular area is diagonally divided into four, with opposing slats, surrounded by a rectangular band with margins and corner vents sporting a florid design. A large, painted stucco rose with a foliate design and matching border adorns the centre of the ceiling. An organ by Lloyd and Dudgeon of Nottingham, featuring nine pipes stepped to the center, is housed in a gallery at the entrance, set within timber-corniced enclosed boxes with three long panels outlined in gilt decoration.
Local climate
Capel Mair, including forecourt railings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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