Bethlehem Capel yr Annibynwyr is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2000. Chapel.

Bethlehem Capel yr Annibynwyr

WRENN ID
frozen-passage-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 2000
Type
Chapel
Address
Bethlehem Capel yr Annibynwyr, Gwaelod-Y-Garth, Pentyrch
OS grid reference
ST 116 836
Coordinates
51.54446, -3.275
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bethlehem Capel yr Annibynwyr is a chapel built of stone, covered in roughcast and pebbledash, with cement-based render dressings including quoins, surrounds, and platbands. It features a Welsh slate roof. The gable-end frontage is three bays wide and has margin-glazed multipane round-headed sash windows in the gallery. In the center, there is a tripartite window, with the central light matching those at each end. On the ground floor, there are similar square-headed windows on either side of a central round-headed doorway that has recessed panelled double doors and a fanlight with radial glazing. An attached cast-iron lamp bracket is also present.

The side elevation has a four-window range of round-headed fixed glazing with opening panes on the first floor, and segmental arches on the ground floor.

Inside, there is a three-sided panelled raked gallery with chamfered angles, a central clock, and a deep moulded soffit, supported by eight slender plain cast-iron columns. The ceiling features coving and simple thin moulding at the margins, along with two ventilators and scored render. On the pulpit wall, there is a classical moulded plaster round-headed arch with narrow imposts, a prominent keystone, decorative spandrels, and bands of moulding, which is unusually decorative. Beneath this arch is a dark-stained pulpit of an unusual design, with some dado panelling at the rear. The windows contain some coloured glass, and there are swing doors leading to the vestibule. Additionally, there is a single-storey Sunday School and vestry at the rear.

Local climate

Bethlehem Capel yr Annibynwyr sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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