Bryn Hyfryd Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. Terrace of houses.

Bryn Hyfryd Baptist Chapel

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
Terrace of houses
Address
Bryn Hyfryd Baptist Chapel, Landore
OS grid reference
SS 655 955
Coordinates
51.64225, -3.94396
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bryn Hyfryd Baptist Chapel, built around 1900, features a striking twin-tower Gothic façade. The exterior is constructed of snecked rubble with pale freestone dressings and topped with slate roofs. The wide three-bay façade includes a parapetted gable with a heavy finial at the center, a two-light window with a cill-band course above a large five-light Geometric W window that has a hoodmould.

The gabled porch rises through the main cill and features an entrance framed by two filleted orders, with nook shafts that have bushy capitals. Above the paired shouldered doorways is a tympanum with blind tracery. The outer towers are square and buttressed; the northern tower has a French slated roof with ironwork cresting and elongated eaves brackets, while the southern tower features a corbelled bell storey, pierced parapets, polygonal finials, and paired lancets with central shafts. The lower storeys are adorned with tall two-light windows above paired narrow lancets.

The side elevation is also buttressed and has bracket eaves, with giant two-light traceried windows and blind panels for the backs of the gallery. A narrow forecourt in front of the chapel is marked by Gothic finials on the piers and modern railings.

Local climate

Bryn Hyfryd Baptist Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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