Hebron Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 July 2000. Chapel.

Hebron Chapel

WRENN ID
forbidden-courtyard-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 July 2000
Type
Chapel
Address
Hebron Chapel, Cymmer, Glyncorrwg
OS grid reference
SS 861 963
Coordinates
51.65443, -3.64772
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Hebron Chapel is a classical style chapel featuring a three-bay front made of coursed rock-faced stone with ashlar surrounds around the openings and a slate roof. The central round-headed doorway is set within a projecting gabled surround and includes an overlight and double panelled doors. The outer bays contain 2-light windows with segmental hood moulds, each accompanied by stone tablets beneath the sills. A string course runs between the two tiers of windows, interrupted by the gable of the door surround. The upper tier features round-headed 2-light windows with key stones and hood moulds, linked by a continuous impost band. The central window is wider and includes a round tracery light, with recessed panels beneath the sills. The gable is pedimented, topped with a thin yet deep cornice, above which is a band displaying the name and date of the chapel in relief. Within the pediment is a blind keyed oculus.

The side walls are finished in scribed roughcast and have four windows, arranged in two tiers. The lower level features sash windows under square heads, while the upper level has windows under segmental heads. A lower and narrower gabled vestry is located at the back of the chapel.

Inside, the vestibule is adorned with coloured and encaustic tiles, and opposite the doorway is a glass panel with diamond-shaped quarries. The flanking gallery stairways are fitted with turned balusters. The main chapel has scribed plaster walls and panelled wainscot. The boarded ceiling is divided into three bays by moulded beams and cornice, and it retains two of the originally three ceiling roses. The three-sided raked gallery is supported by cast iron piers, which are fluted below stylised Corinthian capitals. The gallery features a panelled front, with a clock by Spiegelhalter of Maesteg positioned in the centre. The numbered pews have shaped, rounded ends, and the set fawr has a panelled back. The panelled pulpit includes steps on the right and left with turned balusters and moulded newels. An inserted organ behind the pulpit partially obscures an open pedimented reredos with paired fluted pilasters.

The vestry has a boarded and ribbed ceiling, complete with a central ceiling rose.

Local climate

Hebron Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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