Bethesda Presbyterian Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 March 2000. Chapel.

Bethesda Presbyterian Chapel

WRENN ID
empty-corbel-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Gower MP: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 March 2000
Type
Chapel
Address
Bethesda Presbyterian Chapel, Burry Green, Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton
OS grid reference
SS 462 914
Coordinates
51.60069, -4.22176
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bethesda Presbyterian Chapel is a chapel located within a stone-walled and railed enclosure, alongside its manse. While the manse and the connecting section to the chapel have been significantly modernized, the chapel itself maintains a symmetrical south elevation facing Burry Green, though it has been rendered. The front features two windows and a later porch, with a slate roof that is hipped at both ends. The chapel's name is displayed on a stone above the porch. A small annexe known as Lady Barham's room is situated at the northeast corner. Both the east and west end elevations of the chapel also feature two windows. The original multi-pane windows with interlacing glazing bars are preserved in the end elevation facing the manse, while the other windows have been replaced with late 19th-century timber windows. The rear elevation is mostly blank, except for a gallery door and exterior stairs.

Inside, the most notable feature is the bow-fronted original gallery that extends from the north wall, supported by columns. It includes a moulded handrail with inch-square balusters above broad panels with a base moulding, and a plain continuous beam carried on three surviving Tuscan columns. The interior has undergone alterations, including the addition of two blocks of late 19th-century pine pews facing the pulpit to the east. There is a boarded dado, a slightly raised set fawr in pine with canted corners, and a pulpit with panelled back panelling that includes a brass memorial plaque. At the west end of the room, there is a secondary gallery, and beneath it, a later vestry partition with panels that can be opened.

Local climate

Bethesda Presbyterian Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 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 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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