English Baptist Church Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 December 1998. School.

English Baptist Church Sunday School

WRENN ID
hollow-portal-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Caerphilly
Constituency
Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
17 December 1998
Type
School
Address
English Baptist Church Sunday School, Abercarn
OS grid reference
ST 217 941
Coordinates
51.64067, -3.13239
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The English Baptist Church Sunday School is a building made of snecked rockfaced stone and yellow brick, with a roof that was originally Welsh slate but is now covered with corrugated material, featuring two ventilators. It stands two storeys high and has a side elevation with five bays, including a datestone on the left side. The round-headed windows span both storeys, with some retaining their arched heads and incorporating single-pane opening lights. There are dedication stones at the base of the windows.

The entrance elevation, which faces the chapel, features a wide and deep round-arched doorway with a keystone, recessed double doors with an overlight, and is flanked by two round-headed staircase windows that are similar in style. Above the entrance, there is a decorative band and a central gallery window with paired lights and a roundel above, flanked by two full-height pilaster buttresses topped with decorative finials, along with additional dedication stones.

Inside, the ground floor retains a central hall and schoolrooms separated by moveable panelled partitions. The moulded boarded gallery front has been altered with an inserted ceiling, whereas it was formerly open. The gallery has lost some plaster from its walls and three-sided ceiling but still retains its laths, trusses, and ventilators.

Local climate

English Baptist Church Sunday School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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