Rehoboth Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 2000. Chapel.
Rehoboth Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- dusted-spindle-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 2000
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Rehoboth Baptist Chapel, Briton Ferry
- OS grid reference
- SS 741 939
- Coordinates
- 51.63065, -3.8196
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a classical-style chapel built in the 18th century. It is constructed from coursed rock-faced sandstone with ashlar key and impost blocks, and has a synthetic slate roof. The front gable has plain, deep angle pilasters. Early 20th-century Y-tracery has been inserted into the original window openings. A central round-headed doorway features double doors with fielded panels, surmounted by a later overlight with Art Nouveau glass. An impost block on the right side bears an inscription detailing the dates of the chapel's foundation and the current building. The outer bays have single round-headed windows. The upper level windows are aligned with an impost band. The central bay has a triple round-headed window, with the centre light being larger, and the outer bays have similar single windows. A keyed oculus sits below the apex. The right side wall has a later render and contains three windows with margin-lit horned sashes; these are flat-headed at the lower level and round-headed at the upper level, providing light to the gallery. The left side wall is similar, also with a later render, and has shallow segmental heads to the lower tier of windows. Behind it is a lower, narrower organ projection with round-headed side windows. A disabled access ramp is present.
The vestibule contains three coloured glass panels flanked by plain wooden doors leading to the main chapel and the gallery stairs. The gallery stairs have balusters and newels. The main chapel has scribed plaster walls and a three-sided raked gallery supported by short, bulging Tuscan cast iron columns on tall square wooden bases. The gallery front has blind fretwork panels. The boarded and ribbed ceiling has six circular vents. Former window frames with margin lights are set into the deep coving.
The chapel contains panelled pine box pews. The set fawr has no permanent seat but is framed by a balustrade with moulded square balusters and shaped and fluted newels. The pulpit is flanked by steps with stylised arches above plain balusters; the plain balusters continue above panelling. The polygonal pulpit has a central memorial plaque with raised gold letters dedicated to the Reverend D.B. Jones, a former minister who died in 1962. The baptistery is concealed behind the pulpit beneath floorboards, and a recess under a plain round arch houses the organ.
Local climate
Rehoboth Baptist Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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