Former Penuel Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2000. Chapel.

Former Penuel Chapel

WRENN ID
inner-stair-wax
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
Former Penuel Chapel, Pentyrch
OS grid reference
ST 101 816
Coordinates
51.52702, -3.29718
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Former Penuel Chapel is a small chapel constructed of limewashed rubble with brick detailing around the windows. It features a Welsh slate roof with boarded eaves. The side elevation that faces the road has three long, narrow, round-headed sash windows with narrow glazing bars and multipane margin glazing, along with stone sills and ventilator grilles beneath. There are also two smaller round-headed blocked windows visible.

At the west gable end, there is a gabled porch with double doors in the side walls and a round-headed window in the gable. The main building has similar round-headed windows on the sides and a smaller central window above the porch, along with a plaque above that is currently removed and a blocked oculus at the apex. The elevation facing the graveyard also shows some blocked features.

At the rear, there is a small single-storey Sunday School or vestry wing that has a doorway with voussoirs. The interior is currently under conversion, with the plan of the west end open to the roof and an inserted floor at gallery level that retains cast iron piers.

Local climate

Former Penuel Chapel 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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