Salem Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 January 1991. Chapel.
Salem Chapel
- WRENN ID
- grim-rampart-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1991
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Salem Chapel, Robertstown, Aberdare West, Rhondda Cynon Taff
- OS grid reference
- SO 001 034
- Coordinates
- 51.7206, -3.44667
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Salem Chapel is a 2-storey building with a 4-window front. The ground floor is finished in pebbledash, while the upper floor has a cement render. It features a tall hipped slate roof with wide eaves, tiled cresting, and hooked finials. The front has round arched openings that include horned small pane sash windows with marginal glazing bars. There are paired boarded central doors with fanlights, and a brace plate is located to the left. To the left of the main structure is the 1899 vestry, which is set back. The rear of the building has a similar 2-window arrangement, with the vestry stepped forward and featuring 3 horned sash windows.
Inside, the chapel has a galleried layout with a canted ceiling that is boarded to the edge. Each corner of the ceiling has circular ventilators, and there is a central plaster rose. The panelled gallery front is supported by fluted cast iron columns with foliage capitals. Classical details are present in the set fawr, which has paired columns, and a round arched classical 'reredos' behind it, adorned with painted pilasters and a keystone.
Local climate
Salem Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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