Providence Baptist Chapel and attached Manse is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 January 2000. Chapel, manse.
Providence Baptist Chapel and attached Manse
- WRENN ID
- fallen-steeple-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Gower MP: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 January 2000
- Type
- Chapel, manse
- Address
- Providence Baptist Chapel and attached Manse, Knelston, Port Eynon
- OS grid reference
- SS 467 889
- Coordinates
- 51.57845, -4.21369
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Providence Baptist Chapel is a small chapel built parallel to the road, with an attached two-storey manse featuring three windows located to the east. The building has rendered walls with projecting rusticated quoins and a projecting plinth, all painted white. The chapel has a slate roof with a porch that has UPVC trim at the verges, and decorative crest ridge tiles. A decorative tile finial is situated at the west apex. The front and rear elevations each have two pointed windows with stone Y tracery and sills, along with one window in the porch gable to the west, all featuring coloured margin glazing. Additionally, there is a small quatrefoil light in the apex of the chapel gable and a small trefoil light in the apex of the porch. The manse has a pitched slate roof and four-pane sash windows, also whitewashed.
Access to the chapel is through the west porch, which has ledged, framed, and battened double external doors. Inside, there are double two-panel doors leading into a tall, plain interior that contains two ranges of pews. A simple pulpit is located at the east end, featuring a curtained front and a curtain backdrop. The roof consists of a two-bay scissor beam design with boarding on three purlins on each side. Above the pulpit is a shield painted with the words 'Providence, Knelston, Gower, 1858'. There are also two small war memorial plaques on the side walls.
Local climate
Providence Baptist Chapel and attached Manse 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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