Former Bethlehem Baptist Church aka Ty Capel is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 September 1984. Mill.
Former Bethlehem Baptist Church aka Ty Capel
- WRENN ID
- burning-chimney-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 3 September 1984
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Former Bethlehem Baptist Church aka Ty Capel, Corntown, Ewenny
- OS grid reference
- SS 916 773
- Coordinates
- 51.48499, -3.56159
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former Bethlehem Baptist Church, also known as Ty Capel, is a simple rectangular building that dates back to its original construction. The building features a side wall facade that extends to the right and is made of painted and rendered stone. The front is deeply horizontally channelled with a raised band at the corners, while the sides are roughcast. It has a shallow pitched Welsh slate roof with a terracotta ridge and a low end stack on the left side.
There are four round-headed windows: a long pair in the center and shorter ones on the sides above the gallery. All windows are multipane sashes with intersecting tracery and raised margins. Each side of the building has round-headed doorways with raised margins, which have been fitted with replaced doors that include fanlights. The Sunday school extension features replaced rectangular windows and doors but retains its raised surrounds.
The church is bordered at the front by a rubble wall topped with ashlar saddleback coping. It has original end piers with pyramidal caps, and there are iron railings with fleur de lys finials on the stanchions, along with scrolls and spears on the gates.
The building has been converted to residential use.
Local climate
Former Bethlehem Baptist Church aka Ty Capel 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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