Outdoor Baptistry by Lisvane Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. Baptistry.
Outdoor Baptistry by Lisvane Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- pitched-brick-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff North MP: Anna McMorrin (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1977
- Type
- Baptistry
- Address
- Outdoor Baptistry by Lisvane Baptist Chapel, Craig Llysfaen
- OS grid reference
- ST 195 841
- Coordinates
- 51.55038, -3.16162
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The outdoor baptistry at Lisvane Baptist Chapel is a large square stone bath designed for baptismal immersion, measuring approximately 3 meters deep. It is surrounded by stone walls, some of which are whitewashed. The bath features tiered sides and includes a flight of steps with a railing that leads down to the bottom of the bath. The coping, treads of the steps, and tiered benches are made of flat stones, and there is a low stone stile at the entrance to the enclosure.
Local climate
Outdoor Baptistry by Lisvane Baptist Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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