Zoar Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 November 1997. Chapel.
Zoar Chapel
- WRENN ID
- over-lancet-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 November 1997
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Zoar Chapel, Rhiwceiliog, Coychurch Higher
- OS grid reference
- SS 972 843
- Coordinates
- 51.5485, -3.48328
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Zoar Chapel is a building in a simple classical style, featuring a gable-end facade with three bays. The exterior is rendered and pebble dashed, topped with a slate roof that has wooden boarded eaves and verges. The base has a concrete rendered plinth and dressings. The facade includes wood planked double doors beneath an arched head with a fan light, flanked by tall multi-pane windows with round heads and stone sills. Above the doorway is a shorter window of similar design. The gable contains a circular vent with a tablet below that reads: SOAR / TREFNYDDION CALVINAIDD / 1876.
The rear of the chapel is plain, featuring only a vent in the gable. The side walls each have two windows with arched heads and stone sills, but without dressings. Each window has a four-pane sash at the base, with multi-pane glazing above that includes radial glazing beneath the arch. While the sashes are later additions, the upper glazing is original. On the east side, there is a wide pilaster between the windows.
Inside, the chapel features a three-sided gallery supported by simple cast iron columns. The gallery front is made of polished wood with moulded recessed panels, and between each panel are white painted pilasters with consoles. The gallery contains three rows of panelled pews. The ceiling has a moulded cornice and a beautifully decorated ceiling rose at the center, with four rosettes in the corners. On the ground floor, there are six rows of box-style pews with carved raked ends. A vestibule at the rear provides access to both the ground floor and the gallery. The simple set fawr is from the 20th century, and behind it is a blind arch with plain pilasters, fluted consoles, and a moulded round arch.
Local climate
Zoar Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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