Vestry attached to Salem Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 January 1991. Bridge.
Vestry attached to Salem Chapel
- WRENN ID
- solitary-render-plover
- 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
- OS grid reference
- SO 001 034
- Coordinates
- 51.72055, -3.44679
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building is a vestry attached to Salem Chapel, constructed in 1899. It features a two-storey facade with four windows, a pebbledash ground floor, and cement render above. The tall hipped slate roof has wide eaves and tiled cresting adorned with hooked finials. The front includes round arched openings with horned small pane sash windows that have marginal glazing bars. There are paired boarded central doors with fanlights, and a brace plate to the left. The vestry, which is set back, has a similar two-window arrangement at the rear, while the vestry itself steps forward and includes three horned sash windows.
Inside, the vestry has a galleried layout with a canted ceiling that is boarded to the edge. Each corner features 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, complete with painted pilasters and a keystone.
Local climate
Vestry attached to 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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