Capel y Babell is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 June 1972. Chapel.
Capel y Babell
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-gargoyle-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Caerphilly MP: Chris Evans (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1972
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Capel y Babell, Cwmfelin-Fach, Ynysddu
- OS grid reference
- ST 185 914
- Coordinates
- 51.61562, -3.17752
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Capel y Babell is a small chapel constructed of whitewashed stone, featuring a half-hipped Welsh slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. It has two tall round-headed windows with renewed multipane glazing on each end elevation, and a datestone at the front. The chapel includes a square-headed recessed side door with a moulded render surround and an adjacent lateral chimney. The sides of the building are flanked by remodelled railed walls that enclose the cemetery.
Inside, the chapel retains a pulpit located by the gable-end wall, an organ, four pews, an altar rail, and a fire grate. However, it has been converted for use as a visitor centre and includes additional modern fittings.
Local climate
Capel y Babell sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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