Mount Calvary English Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. Chapel.
Mount Calvary English Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- gentle-panel-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Mount Calvary English Baptist Chapel, Cwmbwrla
- OS grid reference
- SS 650 952
- Coordinates
- 51.63976, -3.95106
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Mount Calvary English Baptist Chapel is a notable building featuring snecked facings, pale freestone dressings, and some red brick, topped with slate roofs that have tiled cresting. The gable is flanked by polygonal turrets with apsed staircase towers. It includes a traceried five-light window and a band of blind panels above a moulded arched doorway, with chequered turrets that have ball finials. The distinctive cusped panels and lights are found at the crenellated top storey of the stairs, while the side elevation is buttressed and features a cross gable with two-light cusped windows. The school-room gable has a similar design, featuring a three-light plain window above an arched doorway, with outside stairs to the right. The forecourt is enclosed with piers and railings.
Inside the chapel, there are intruded angles for open-handrail stairs. The ceiling is three-sided over the pulpit area, supported by collar-beam trusses with arched braces resting on curved corbels. There is a U-plan gallery with bowed ironwork anthemion panels and cast-iron columns; the gallery front sweeps down below the organ in an arched chamber. The pulpit is perpendicular with open work handrails. The rear school-room also has a three-sided ceiling roof, with trusses on wall-posts and cast-iron columns behind panelled screens on one side only.
Local climate
Mount Calvary English 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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