Paran Capel y Bedyddwr is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 July 1997. Gate lodge.
Paran Capel y Bedyddwr
- WRENN ID
- fossil-remnant-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Rhondda and Ogmore MP: Chris Bryant (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1997
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- Paran Capel y Bedyddwr, Blackmill, Ogmore Valley
- OS grid reference
- SS 934 868
- Coordinates
- 51.57003, -3.53923
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Paran Capel y Bedyddwr is a stone building, now rendered, with a slate roof and ringed red clayware ridge tiles. It is small in scale, with the caretaker's house extending to the west towards Oak Ridge. The entrance features a 4-panelled door located on the canted southwest corner. On the south wall, there are two tall round-headed timber windows, flanked by two shorter round-headed windows that light the gallery. The windows on the north side have been obscured by later extensions. The canted corner is adorned with an ogee moulding that returns to the square under the eaves. A date plaque above the door reads "ADEILADWYR 1819 / HELATHWYD 1856 / ADNEWYDDWYD 1898."
Inside, the entrance door leads to a cross passage, with a central door that opens into the main body of the chapel, and a staircase at the north end leading to the gallery. The walls are plastered and lined to resemble ashlar, rising to a coved ceiling that features a central ventilation rose. The inserted gallery encircles three sides of the chapel, supported by two cast iron rectangular columns decorated with trailing husk motifs in the recessed angles and a fluted frieze. The gallery has a bellied iron lattice front, set on a pitch-pine substructure that includes both dentils and modillions. Steps on either side at the east lead up to a part-octagonal pine pulpit, which is set against an arch-headed recess flanked by fluted pilasters. The gallery contains four rows of seats at the rear, with two additional rows returning on each side, providing seating for approximately 200 people. A black marble plaque commemorating the Sunday school conductors is mounted on the wall above the pulpit recess, along with nine similar tablets with gilded lettering arranged around the arch. A door on the north wall opens to steps leading up to a spacious vestry.
Local climate
Paran Capel y Bedyddwr sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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