Zoar Chapel (Welsh Congregational) is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 August 1975. Chapel.

Zoar Chapel (Welsh Congregational)

WRENN ID
roaming-doorway-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Constituency
Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 August 1975
Type
Chapel
Address
Zoar Chapel (Welsh Congregational), Town
OS grid reference
SO 049 064
Coordinates
51.74862, -3.37796
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Zoar Chapel, a large rectangular building constructed from rubble, features a symmetrical five-bay northern front with entrances and advanced end bays. The chapel has a hipped slate roof with wide eaves. The upper floor windows are arched and have fixed ironwork Gothic glazing bars, while the ground-floor windows have cambered heads and are sash windows. There is a three-bay entrance loggia, which may have been inserted, with a bracket cornice and plain capitals on turned columns, along with a glazed lean-to canopy. The west elevation has six bays with ironwork frames for the ground-floor windows, and the south elevation is slate-hung with a gabled two-storey projection.

Inside, the chapel features a galleried interior with a ribbed plaster ceiling, an organ, a pulpit, and balustraded stairs at the south end. The interior also includes fluted cast-iron columns with bushy foliage, a stencilled cornice, panelled galleried fronts with fluted pilasters, and raked box-pews.

Local climate

Zoar Chapel (Welsh Congregational) 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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