Nebo Independent Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 October 1999. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Nebo Independent Chapel
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1999
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Nebo Independent Chapel, Efailwen, Clunderwen, Cilymaenllwyd, SA66 7UY
- OS grid reference
- SN 139 256
- Coordinates
- 51.89866, -4.70567
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Nebo Independent Chapel is a square-plan building with rendered walls and a hipped slate roof that features overhanging flat eaves supported by paired brackets. The roof is adorned with terracotta ridge tiles and finials. The front facade includes two arched windows, a large central arched door, and a small arched plaque, all set in raised stucco surrounds. The windows are small-paned sashes with intersecting bars in arched heads. There are earlier 20th-century double doors with a fanlight and leaded glazing that displays the word 'Nebo' in white letters. The side elevations are two stories high with three windows each, where plastic windows have replaced the original cambered-headed 12-pane sashes, and the window heads are recessed. The rear wall is entirely slate-hung, using rough local slates.
Inside, the chapel has a square layout featuring an unusual four-sided gallery supported by seven thin iron columns. The gallery front consists of long horizontal panels with square panels in between, and the fourth side extends over the entrance lobby. The interior includes panelled painted grained pews with doors arranged in three blocks, with the rear pews raked upwards. There are also some inward-facing raked pews on either side of the pulpit. The three-sided set fawr is also panelled with doors. The pulpit, which backs onto the lobby, features a panel front with a bookrest and ornate open neo-Jacobean fretwork rails on each side. Below the pulpit are three seats, with the centre seat having carved scrolled armrests. Steps lead up each side of the pulpit, with ramped rails over the panelling, and above the rails is a piece of pierced fretwork that fills out the curve, along with further fretwork over the curved rear corners of the platform. The timber pulpit back is topped with a thick crest of opposed scrolls in an ogee form. There are traceried windows on either side leading into the lobby, and the ceiling is boarded with a plaster cornice. The lobby features stone steps that lead up to the gallery.
Local climate
Nebo Independent Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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