Capel Sittim is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 September 1999. Chapel.
Capel Sittim
- WRENN ID
- fossil-corridor-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 September 1999
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Capel Sittim, Felingwmisaf, Carmarthen, Llanegwad
- OS grid reference
- SN 508 237
- Coordinates
- 51.8924, -4.16873
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Capel Sittim is a chapel constructed with unpainted roughcast and a slate roof. It features a simple gable front with an arched window on each side of a Tudor-arched door. The windows have later 19th-century timber 2-light tracery, and the door is panelled with a Y-tracery overlight. The surrounds of these features are plain and raised. The side walls also have two similar arched windows, and there is a rear outbuilding, likely a stable and vestry, which has a hipped roof, a small window and door on the ground floor, and a sash window on the first floor, with a door at the rear. A baptismal tank is located in the grounds near the rear wall.
Inside, there is a pulpit on the rear wall and an early to mid-19th-century gallery on the entrance wall supported by three plain timber columns. The gallery features vertical panels that alternate between narrow and broader widths, and there are open back bench seats. Below the gallery is a lobby with a small traceried window containing coloured glass, and the entrance doors are set into canted sides. The chapel has a fine set of painted grained box pews that are panelled, with a central block and inward-facing raked side blocks. The ceiling is plain with a rose design leading to a flat surface.
There is a later 19th-century platform and set fawr, which is three-sided with a moulded top-rail and an open back. The pulpit has a square projecting front divided into three bays, featuring thick Gothic column shafts and shaft rings. Each bay is open above and panelled below the shaft ring, with a rectangular panel and roundel. The sides of the pulpit consist of one bay each. The stair balustrades on either side have similar squat turned column shafts and a thick moulded rail. Behind the pulpit is a plain arched recess with a door leading into the vestry.
Local climate
Capel Sittim sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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