Saron Old Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 March 2000. Chapel.
Saron Old Chapel
- WRENN ID
- half-remnant-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 March 2000
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Saron Old Chapel, Rhyd-Y-Fro, Swansea, Pontardawe
- OS grid reference
- SN 712 059
- Coordinates
- 51.73744, -3.86569
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Saron Old Chapel is a chapel built in 1843, constructed from whitewashed rubble stone with a slate roof. The front wall features two large arched windows with stone voussoirs and stone sills, and to the left, there is a single plain flat-headed door also with stone voussoirs. The windows are made of 20th-century hardwood, and the door is framed and boarded. A plaque between the windows reads 'Saron Capel yr Anymddibynwyr Adeiladwyd AD 1843'. The right end wall has a blocked door.
Inside, the chapel has been mostly stripped of fittings, but a three-sided gallery remains. This gallery is supported by two thick cast-iron columns with painted marbling. The gallery front consists of long panels with shorter panels at the curved angles. There is a panelled dado on the ground floor, but there is no internal access to the gallery. Two windows at the rear of the gallery are blocked, and there is a former gallery door on the left wall. The pulpit was located on the front wall between the windows.
Local climate
Saron Old Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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