Forecourt and Graveyard Gates, Gatepiers and Walls of Bethesda'r Fro Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 2004. Gate and wall.
Forecourt and Graveyard Gates, Gatepiers and Walls of Bethesda'r Fro Chapel
- WRENN ID
- steep-nave-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 December 2004
- Type
- Gate and wall
- Address
- Forecourt and Graveyard Gates, Gatepiers and Walls of Bethesda'r Fro Chapel, Boverton, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen, Llantwit Major
- OS grid reference
- SS 991 690
- Coordinates
- 51.41189, -3.45086
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The forecourt and graveyard gates, gatepiers, and walls of Bethesda'r Fro Chapel date from the 19th century. The south-west forecourt is enclosed by a limestone rubble wall that features two gate piers and a central iron gate. The gate has circular uprights that rise alternately above the top and middle rails, with stud finials on the lower uprights and arrow-headed finials on the upper ones.
Three stone steps lead up through the gate to a stone flagged path that leads to the chapel door. There is also a path at right angles that leads to the north-west wing on the left and to another 19th-century iron gate at the entrance to the graveyard on the right. This second gate also has circular uprights that rise alternately above the top and middle rails, all topped with arrow-head finials.
The graveyard is enclosed by additional rubble walls forming a large square, which includes piers and a wider opening with double iron gates that provide access from the main road.
Local climate
Forecourt and Graveyard Gates, Gatepiers and Walls of Bethesda'r Fro 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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