Gates and railings at Capel Moriah is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 August 2002. Gate, railing.

Gates and railings at Capel Moriah

WRENN ID
lost-belfry-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Gower MP: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
6 August 2002
Type
Gate, railing
Address
Gates and railings at Capel Moriah, Llwchwr
OS grid reference
SS 577 981
Coordinates
51.66363, -4.05882
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The gates, piers, and railings at Capel Moriah are made of rockfaced brown stone with low walls topped with sandstone ashlar copings. The iron railings feature a spearhead design and a horseshoe motif beneath the top rail between each pair of rails. In front of the chapel, the rails curve towards two stone gatepiers that have sandstone pyramid caps, with two similar piers at each end. The railings continue in the same style for a short distance to the right and in front of the schoolroom to the left, leading to simple outer piers. In front of the schoolroom, there are two earlier tooled stone piers with simpler caps. The gates for both the chapel and schoolroom are similar, featuring spear-head dog-bars, horseshoes beneath the top rail, and scrolls that ramp up to the meeting stiles, but they do not have top spearheads.

Local climate

Gates and railings at Capel Moriah sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,450 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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