Horeb Presbyterian Church including attached hall to right is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2000. Chapel.
Horeb Presbyterian Church including attached hall to right
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- 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
- Horeb Presbyterian Church including attached hall to right, Pen-Y-Garn, Pentyrch
- OS grid reference
- ST 100 821
- Coordinates
- 51.53086, -3.29755
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Horeb Presbyterian Church, which includes an attached hall on the right, is a plain chapel built in the 19th century. It features an unusual gable-end facade with four windows and a lower hall wing. The exterior is cement rendered and topped with a Welsh slate roof that has overhanging eaves. The main south-facing front has four identical round-headed gallery windows that have multipane and margin glazing, some of which incorporates colored glass. There is a blind roundel at the apex and a small date plaque in the center. On the ground floor, there are two doorways with boarded doors and margin-glazed fanlights. The three-bay hall range is set back and has 9/4 pane sashes along with a cambered-headed doorway. The rear elevation of the chapel features a simple moulded cornice and four rectangular margin-glazed windows on each floor.
Inside, there is a three-sided gallery with a panelled front, supported by five cast-iron columns and deep panelled coving. The panelled pews, which have moulded ends, are long and curve around the corners. The woodwork throughout is finished in light-toned grained paint. On the ground floor, the panelled pews have doors, and those on the sides face inward rather than being angled, with a panelled dado. There is a panelled set fawr and a panelled pulpit with a simple bench and additional panelling at the back that rises to a scrolled pediment. Small vestibules with doorcases containing part-glazed doors and margin glazing provide access to the ground floor at the preacher's end and the gallery. The render is part scored.
Local climate
Horeb Presbyterian Church including attached hall to right 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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