Hen Dy Cwrdd Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 January 1991. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Hen Dy Cwrdd Chapel
- WRENN ID
- knotted-newel-jackdaw
- 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
- Bridge
- Address
- Hen Dy Cwrdd Chapel, Trecynon, Aberdare, Aberdare West, Rhondda Cynon Taff
- OS grid reference
- SN 995 035
- Coordinates
- 51.72128, -3.45589
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Hen Dy Cwrdd Chapel is a symmetrical building with a cement-rendered gabled front, featuring channels below the gallery windows. It has a slate roof with ridge cresting, boarded eaves, and undulating bargeboards topped with a finial. The facade includes a round attic window, sash glazing below, and a stringcourse over the gallery windows. The central windows are semi-circular headed and paired, separated by a pilaster, with two additional windows on each side, the outer sashes being broader. There is an overall sill band that steps up to the center. The round arched doorway features broad voussoirs and a keystone, with an inscribed plaque above. Steps lead up to panelled double doors and a 7-pane fanlight, with 6-pane sash windows on either side.
The side elevations have round arched gallery windows. To the left, there is a lower cottage attached, and to the right, square-headed ground floor windows.
Inside, the chapel has a square layout with a gallery around three sides. It features a simple cornice, a central rose, and octagonal ventilation panels. The gallery front is unusually deep, with extensively moulded and stained woodwork, including a central pulvinated band and a ramped band beneath adorned with acanthus leaves over cast iron columns. There is a semi-circular arched recess with a label behind the set fawr, and steps leading up to either side with acorn finials on the balustrade. In the lobby, there is a monument to Thomas Evans, the minister from 1811 to 1833, and on the gallery stairs, there is another monument to Edmund Llewellyn, who died in 1829.
Local climate
Hen Dy Cwrdd Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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