Capel Sardis is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 February 1998. Chapel.

Capel Sardis

WRENN ID
riven-newel-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
17 February 1998
Type
Chapel
Address
Capel Sardis, Cwmcamlais, Trallong, Powys
OS grid reference
SN 953 268
Coordinates
51.93051, -3.524
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Capel Sardis is a chapel built from painted rubble stone and topped with a slate roof. The entrance is located on the long wall facing the road, featuring a cambered-headed doorway to the left, which has a panelled door. There are two slightly pointed windows with small-paned glazing, stone voussoirs, and stone sills. The left gable end includes a 12-pane hornless sash window. At the rear, there are two square 4-pane windows at eaves level, along with one nine-pane hornless sash window below. The right gable is windowless and rendered.

The chapel has an almost square plan with a boarded ceiling and a gallery on three sides, featuring rectangular panels at the front supported by plain iron classical columns. The panelled pulpit, dating from around 1860, is located on the entry wall and is adorned with turned balusters and Jacobethan newels with finials. There is a lobby with a wooden screen at the northwest corner, and the interior is furnished with wooden pews.

Local climate

Capel Sardis sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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