Bryn Sion Presbyterian Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 September 1988. Chapel.
Bryn Sion Presbyterian Chapel
- WRENN ID
- still-roof-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 September 1988
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Bryn Sion Presbyterian Chapel, St Brides Major, St. Bride's Major
- OS grid reference
- SS 896 749
- Coordinates
- 51.46288, -3.5905
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bryn Sion Presbyterian Chapel is a small Gothic-style chapel built in 1859. It has a gable-end entry with the lateral side facing the road. The north gable end is constructed of snecked masonry, while the west side and south gable end are rendered. The roof is covered with fish-scale slate, and the building features freestone quoins and dressings, as well as wide boarded eaves. There are diagonal buttresses at the northeast and northwest angles.
The entrance consists of central boarded double doors beneath a pointed arched head, which includes a fanlight with intersecting tracery. This is flanked by tall windows that also have pointed heads, intersecting tracery under the head, and small panes. In the gable, there is a recessed stone tablet that reads ‘BRYNSION / 1859’. The south gable end has two windows similar to those on the north. The west side has one window with intersecting tracery under the head and larger panes below, while there is one window on the east side.
Inside, there is a gallery at the north end supported by two cast iron piers, with a staircase located to the east. No other original features are present.
Local climate
Bryn Sion Presbyterian Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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