Jerusalem Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 March 2000. Chapel.

Jerusalem Chapel

WRENN ID
crumbling-span-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
6 March 2000
Type
Chapel
Address
Jerusalem Chapel, Pontrhydyfen, Pelenna
OS grid reference
SS 794 942
Coordinates
51.63399, -3.74357
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Jerusalem Chapel is a classical style chapel built from snecked, rock-faced sandstone with a slate roof. The front features a three-bay gable end with round-headed sash windows in the outer bays. In the center, there are double panelled doors topped by a round-headed overlight containing late 19th-century coloured glass. Above these doors, the central bay has triple round-headed sash windows. The gable is pedimented, with a soffit that includes a billet frieze and a keyed oculus, which has vents above an inset tablet that displays the building's date in engraved letters.

On the right side, there is a wall that runs at a right angle, featuring cast iron gates and a wrought-iron overthrow marked with the date 1863, likely taken from another location. The right side wall is pebble dashed and has a hornless sash window that is offset to the left in both tiers, along with a later one-storey projection to the right. The rear wall has a central lean-to flanked by tall round-headed windows and a segmental-headed sash window located in the lower left. The left side wall has two segmental-headed hornless sash windows. The chapel was inaccessible during the inspection in September 1999.

Local climate

Jerusalem Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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