Mortuary Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 July 1997. House.

Mortuary Chapel

WRENN ID
shadowed-pediment-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bridgend
Constituency
Rhondda and Ogmore MP: Chris Bryant (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 July 1997
Type
House
Address
Mortuary Chapel, Pontycymer, Garw Valley
OS grid reference
SS 907 914
Coordinates
51.61158, -3.57926
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Mortuary Chapel is a simple, small, single-cell building with a high south porch. It is constructed from snecked rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings, featuring a banded Welsh slate roof, blue ridge tiles, and a small ashlar gabled bellcote at the eastern apex. The approach from the south is highlighted by the steeply gabled porch, which has an unmoulded pointed arched doorway made of ashlar, adorned with a narrow rock-faced voussoir band. The porch also includes an elegant decorative wrought iron gate with an Art Nouveau motif and spear finials. Inside, the inner doorway is square-headed, framed by a moulded ashlar surround with a relieving arch above, leading to double black painted boarded doors. The windows, located only on the east and west sides, consist of two pointed lights topped with a triangular light at the apex. Each corner of the chapel features tiered angle buttresses. The interior retains a stone flagged floor and an open timber roof.

Local climate

Mortuary Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 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 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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