Sunday School attached to Bethania Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 January 1991. Chapel.
Sunday School attached to Bethania Chapel
- WRENN ID
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- 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
- OS grid reference
- SO 002 024
- Coordinates
- 51.71216, -3.44584
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Sunday School attached to Bethania Chapel is a building with a 3-bay gable front made of coursed rubble, featuring a plinth and quoins. It has a slate roof and a bracket eaves cornice. At the top, there is a roundel above a giant arched central recess, which is the first example of this feature on a chapel façade. This recess is adorned with voussoirs and contains a date plaque over a tripartite window, which has oculi above each square-headed small pane light. The design includes keystones, imposts, linked labels, and an overall sill. Below, there is a round arched entrance with an impost band, double panelled doors with an architrave, a chevron arched band, and a carved stone tympanum symbolizing Evangelism. Small flanking lobby windows are present, and the outer bays feature tall round arched sash windows with marginal glazing bars and a stringcourse at mid-rail level. The façade continues around the corners and steps forward with bull-nosed quoins. The side elevations have 4 bays with sash windows, round arched over square-headed.
At the rear, the Ysgoldy hall is off-centre and set into the slope. It is a 2-storey building with a 4-window, cement rendered gabled front and tapered end pilasters, also with a slate roof. The chapel front is mirrored in the recessed giant arch at the centre, which contains 2 windows. All windows are sashes, round arched over square-headed, with labels on the first floor. There is a door to the right and a Chapel House beyond.
Inside, the chapel lobby features a ceiling rose and turned balusters leading to the gallery stairs. It retains an old platform with a set fawr against the front wall. The ceiling has 3 large panels with roses, surrounded by bosses and a dentil cornice. The raked gallery corner is supported by fluted cast iron columns with palm-like capitals and a collar band of a similar leafy pattern. The panelled gallery front includes pilasters with a strapwork design. The organ is positioned over the set fawr with arched panelling. The Ysgoldy has a canted ceiling with a large central rose and smaller ones at the ends.
Local climate
Sunday School attached to Bethania 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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