New Siloh (Seilo Newydd) Congregational Chapel, including gates and railings. is a Grade II* listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. Chapel.
New Siloh (Seilo Newydd) Congregational Chapel, including gates and railings.
- WRENN ID
- peeling-pavement-bramble
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- New Siloh (Seilo Newydd) Congregational Chapel, including gates and railings., Landore
- OS grid reference
- SS 656 957
- Coordinates
- 51.64413, -3.94242
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
New Siloh (Seilo Newydd) Congregational Chapel, including gates and railings, is a Grade II* listed building. It features snecked rubble facings with pale freestone dressings, granite shafts, and a slate roof. The chapel has a three-bay open pedimented facade topped with a tall finial and balustraded parapets at the corners. The facade includes corbel tablets, a plain frieze, and a chequered treatment to the pilasters with acanthus capitals. Flanking the arched head of the three-light traceried center window, which has a parchment scroll above, are shafts with capitals below the transom. There are three gabled and finialled doorways set into the rubble wall of the porch, featuring carved tympana, arched doorways, and an acanthus band. The outer bays have tall arched lights with marginal glazing bars, while the seven-bay flank elevations are adorned with giant pilasters and arched windows on two levels. An extension for the organ loft is located over an arched passage.
The chapel is situated on an enclosed platform site with snecked rubble revetments, pyramidical Gothic caps on the piers, and original spear gates and railings.
Inside, the magnificent space accommodates 1,100 people and features a shallow elliptical ceiling with elaborate ribbed panelling, pendants, and pierced roses for lamps. A continuous gallery supported by barley-sugar iron columns has an iron filigree front and moulded floral decoration on the coving, with a clock framed by pillars. The gallery sweeps down above the pulpit, with an organ console located at the rear of the choir benches. The broad organ case displays exposed decorated pipes, and stained glass windows are positioned on either side of the organ. The large polygonal pulpit features relief panels and arcading, with balustraded stairs on each side. The balustrade surrounding the set fawr enclosure has panels with relief decoration. The interior retains its original pitch pine seating on both levels.
Local climate
New Siloh (Seilo Newydd) Congregational Chapel, including gates and railings. sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- School House at New Siloh (Congregational) Chapel
- Bryn Hyfryd Baptist Chapel
- Old Siloh Chapel (English)
- Old Siloh Chapel (English) Sunday School
- Parish Church of St Paul
- Caseys Roofing Centre (Formerly Landore Cinema)
- Dinas Noddfa Baptist Chapel
- Museum Stores, formerly Morfa Copperworks rolling mill
- Church of St Michael & all Angels (Manselton Parish Church)
- Canteen Building at the Former Yorkshire Imperial Metalworks