Pyle Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Capel y Pil, and schoolroom, with forecourt railings. is a Grade II* listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 January 1998. House.
Pyle Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Capel y Pil, and schoolroom, with forecourt railings.
- WRENN ID
- grim-tower-bone
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1998
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pyle Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Capel y Pil, and schoolroom, with forecourt railings., Cynffig, Cornelly
- OS grid reference
- SS 823 816
- Coordinates
- 51.52108, -3.6969
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pyle Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, also known as Capel y Pil, along with its schoolroom and forecourt railings, is a notable building constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof. The chapel features a symmetrical gabled front, with lateral round-headed door openings that contain 20th-century framed and boarded doors, positioned beneath original overlights adorned with stained glass. At the center, there are two very tall round-headed windows with margin glazing, set within ashlar voussoired arches, along with shorter windows above the doors. The design includes a stone bracketed cornice and timber modillion eaves beneath the pediment. A weathered date stone in the tympanum is unreadable, but a later stone placed between the central windows provides historical context. The side elevation showcases two tiers of similar margin-glazed round-headed windows.
The adjoining schoolroom or vestry gable is slightly set back, featuring a central door that is blocked, with side windows and a window above the door that resemble those of the chapel. There is a small round-headed louvred vent in the gable head and iron ventilators located beneath the windows.
The forecourt in front of the chapel and vestry/schoolroom is enclosed by cast iron railings atop a low stone wall, with the railings featuring a circular central ring in each panel, supported by square cast iron stanchions.
Inside the chapel, a panel-fronted gallery, likely added in 1862, extends around three sides, rounded at the entrance end, and is supported by iron columns. It has a moulded timber front with a dentilled cornice. The pulpit is positioned between the two central front windows. The ceiling above the perimeter cornice includes a central rose and diagonal ribs that extend to parallel side ribs, with ventilators at the corners where they intersect. The gallery contains four tiers of seats and retains a clock facing the pulpit. The schoolroom features two lateral fireplaces and stacks.
Local climate
Pyle Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Capel y Pil, and schoolroom, with forecourt railings. 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings