Seion Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1993. Chapel.

Seion Chapel

WRENN ID
little-keystone-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 September 1993
Type
Chapel
Address
Seion Chapel, Morriston
OS grid reference
SS 671 980
Coordinates
51.6657, -3.92229
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Seion Chapel is a Baptist chapel built in 1870, replacing an earlier structure from 1846. It is located set back from the road within a graveyard that features some notable memorials, enclosed by a stone wall with iron railings. The chapel is constructed from coursed brown stone with freestone dressings and has a rock-faced plinth topped with a slate roof.

The entrance front, which faces the road, has a gabled design treated as a pediment. It features an oculus with a cinquefoil design and an entablature inscribed with 'Seion', '1845' (indicating the date of the chapel's incorporation), and 'Capel Y Bedyddwyr 1870'. The front has three bays, marked by Tuscan pilasters; the outer bays each contain a tall round-headed window with simple tracery, while the central bay has a group of three round-headed windows at the gallery level and a round-headed entrance doorway below.

The side elevations consist of five bays, also articulated by pilasters similar to the front, with tall round-headed windows. At the rear, the gable includes a cinquefoil oculus and pilasters at the ends. There is an attached single-storey annexe made of brown stone, with the rear being rendered. The southeast side has two round-headed windows (one blocked), a camber-headed basement doorway, and two round-headed windows at the rear. The northwest side features two round-headed windows similar to those on the southeast and a smaller window towards the body of the chapel, along with a modern gabled porch.

Local climate

Seion Chapel 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.

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