Capel Hengoed (also known as Hengoed Baptist Chapel) is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 September 1993. Pump.
Capel Hengoed (also known as Hengoed Baptist Chapel)
- WRENN ID
- gentle-spire-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Caerphilly MP: Chris Evans (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 September 1993
- Type
- Pump
- Address
- Capel Hengoed (also known as Hengoed Baptist Chapel), Gelligaer
- OS grid reference
- ST 148 954
- Coordinates
- 51.65097, -3.23255
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Capel Hengoed, also known as Hengoed Baptist Chapel, is a square chapel dating from the 19th century. It features a three-window gabled front with cement rendered elevations and a slate roof, although the chimney has been removed. The building follows the standard 19th-century plan but retains the paired front entrances typical of earlier long-walled chapels, rather than the central entrance leading to a lobby found in later designs. The chapel has round-headed horned sash windows with marginal intersecting glazing bars, along with an Italianate central two-light window. The two entrances on either side of the central ground floor window are square-headed and have modern boarding. A stone date plaque is located on the gable. The side elevations have horned 12-pane sash windows, with camber-headed windows for the gallery; the ground floor windows on the left side are blocked. The rear gable features a pair of square-headed two-light windows, which have recently been reopened and include pointed arched heads.
Inside, the chapel has a simple design with a raked gallery on three sides, supported by chamfered timber piers and featuring a panelled front. The ceiling is coved and boarded, with a central octagon design and a moulded cornice. The pews are made of boxed pitch pine. There is a panelled area for the set fawr, with steps on either side and an open-pedimented board behind it. Above this area are two memorial tablets, one dedicated to Rev John Jenkins (died 1853) and the other to Rev Richard Williams (died 1878), both of whom served as ministers at the chapel.
Local climate
Capel Hengoed (also known as Hengoed Baptist Chapel) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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