Old church of St Baglan is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 November 1952. Church.
Old church of St Baglan
- WRENN ID
- slow-barrel-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1952
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- SS 753 922
- Coordinates
- 51.61556, -3.80165
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Church of St Baglan is a roofless single-cell church built from rubble stone, now overgrown. The eastern window features three lights in a Perpendicular style. On the south wall of the chancel, there is a three-light flat-headed Tudor window with plain lights, a hood mould, and head stops. The south wall of the nave has two early 19th-century windows with rounded heads and thin voussoirs. The openings on the west side are also early 19th-century, including a round-headed doorway with a window above it. At the apex, there is a gabled double bellcote. The northern side does not show window details, as the wall does not reach its full height. Traces of plaster can be seen on the interior walls, but the interior itself is not accessible.
Local climate
Old church of St Baglan 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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