Capel Pen-rhiw is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. Chapel.

Capel Pen-rhiw

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
6 October 1977
Type
Chapel
Address
Capel Pen-rhiw, Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, St. Fagans
OS grid reference
ST 116 772
Coordinates
51.48772, -3.27326
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Capel Pen-rhiw is a chapel built with whitewashed stone rubble walls and a stone slate gabled roof. The south-east elevation features a tall central sash window that is three panes wide, flanked on each side by a two-light window with small panes and a square-headed doorway that has a ledged door. The north-west wall is illuminated by another three-pane wide sash window. The south-west gable end includes a semi-circular headed sash window with glazing bars, while the north-east gable end has a small window.

This single cell chapel includes a gallery, accessed by a stone staircase against the north-east wall that leads to an early 19th-century gallery, which replaced a loft, on the south-west, north-west, and north-east sides. The pews are of varying designs with panelled sides, likely indicating that each family was responsible for their own pew. There is an arcaded pew next to the pulpit, probably designated for elders, with another pew for deacons located in front of it. The roof is constructed on false crucks and features six bays, collared principals, three tiers of purlins, and a ridge piece.

Local climate

Capel Pen-rhiw 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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