Hermon Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 September 1986. A Victorian Chapel.
Hermon Chapel
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 September 1986
- Type
- Chapel
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Hermon Chapel, CF31 3AA
- OS grid reference
- SS 906 795
- Coordinates
- 51.50394, -3.57643
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Hermon Chapel is a 19th-century building featuring an Italian Renaissance style. The front has an open-pedimented stucco design with three bays, a channelled base, and a plinth. The recessed center showcases a voussoired 'glorification arch' and is flanked by a wide cornice and a plain entablature. Ionic pilasters sit on a cill band beside the side bays, which contain tall round-headed lights. The central bay features a tripartite window with a bracketed cill below a date plaque that reads "Hermon AD 1862," topped with a classical canopy and an arched entrance with raised moulding and impost bands, leading to boarded doors. All arches have keystones.
To the left, there are tall arched windows with broad architraves on cement render, and a vestry is attached at the rear, accessible via a side lane.
Inside, the chapel has a contemporary design with a panel-fronted gallery supported by cast-iron columns with foliage capitals. The ceiling is painted wood, and there is trefoil decoration on the organ case behind the large seat, along with slightly ramped pews. The former lower chapel areas to the left and right are not considered of special interest.
Local climate
Hermon Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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