Bethania Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 January 1989. Chapel.
Bethania Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- fallow-iron-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 January 1989
- Type
- Chapel
- OS grid reference
- SS 752 973
- Coordinates
- 51.66063, -3.80433
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bethania Baptist Chapel is a 19th-century building featuring a three-bay classical front. It is constructed from squared rubble laid to courses and has a gently pitched slate roof. The pediment includes a roundel shaped like a belt with a chape, which has the lettering "BETHANY" and the date "1862" inscribed on it, along with "BAPTIST CHAPEL" in the center. The chapel has a plain frieze and a simple architrave, supported by four Tuscan pilasters. The outer pilasters are set in from the corners and are accompanied by regular stressed quoins.
The building has a plinth and tall round-arched windows in the outer bays, featuring a moulded keystoned arch with an impost band and a plain architrave on a bracket below the sill band. The sash windows have marginal glazing bars with small panes. The broader center bay contains a similar detail Venetian window. A broad flat-topped porch is supported by paired Tuscan columns at the outer corners, leading to a broad doorway with stressed regular quoins and modern double doors.
The side elevations are rendered and feature three plain windows, with a plain eaves cornice and end pilasters. The tall round-arched windows on the sides have glazing similar to that of the front, along with a continuous sill band.
The chapel includes a railed forecourt with double gates at the center and a paved path leading to the porch.
Local climate
Bethania 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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