Libanus Welsh Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 February 2001. Church.

Libanus Welsh Baptist Church

WRENN ID
small-obsidian-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Constituency
Pontypridd MP: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 February 2001
Type
Church
Address
Libanus Welsh Baptist Church, Treforest, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, CF37 1SG
OS grid reference
ST 082 892
Coordinates
51.59424, -3.32561
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Libanus Welsh Baptist Church features a simple classical style facade made of scribed roughcast. Concealed by a high parapet, the building has a hipped roof covered with synthetic slates, which replaced the original slates. The front facade includes thin angle pilaster strips, a moulded parapet, and openings framed with moulded architraves. The central doorway has double fielded-panel doors and a dated tablet in the architrave. Flanking the doorway are two tiers of windows, all of which have been replaced but are set in the original round-headed openings. The right side of the church is attached to 6 Fothergill Street, while the left side has two windows that have also been replaced in their original openings. At the rear, there is a low single-storey gabled projection with an altered left side facing the graveyard. The opposite wall is faced in brick and features three margin-lit sash windows with segmental heads.

Inside, the vestibule has a plain glass panel opposite the main door, flanked by half-lit doors leading to the main chapel and the gallery stairs. The main chapel includes a three-sided raked gallery supported by cast iron columns, with a rich classical front that incorporates festoons in relief. The walls are adorned with plaster panels, while the ceiling is concealed above a later temporary ceiling. Behind the pulpit, there is a doorway within an ornate architrave, topped with a pediment and framed by guilloche mouldings in relief. The sliding half-lit doors feature diaper work in relief below the glazing and are topped by a large stepped panel with similar diaper enrichment and an inscription band reading 'Gerwch Eigh Gilydd'. These sliding doors open to the vestry behind and were designed to allow choirs to perform in the chapel.

The panelled pulpit is dated 1938, and the plain pews have moulded ends. The vestry has a boarded ceiling supported by collar beams.

Local climate

Libanus Welsh Baptist Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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