Beulah Baptist Church and attached wing and gateway is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 April 1963. House.
Beulah Baptist Church and attached wing and gateway
- WRENN ID
- long-groin-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beulah Baptist Church and attached wing and gateway, Newbridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 210 971
- Coordinates
- 51.66713, -3.14313
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Beulah Baptist Church is a chapel built in a simple classical style, featuring a rendered exterior with a roof made of Welsh slate and artificial slate. The main facade, which faces the cemetery, includes a gallery level with four round-headed windows that have a continuous hoodmould band, shallow keystone, and imposts, flanked by rusticated end pilasters. In the center, there is a datestone that is now illegible. Above the windows, a scalloped lead flashing course runs below a plain parapet that rises in the center to form a pediment-gable topped with a cruciform finial. The ground floor has three similar windows and taller doorways at each end, which also feature a hoodmould band with vermiculated detailing over the doorways. The rear of the chapel, facing the lane, has scored render and two altered round-headed windows.
Attached to one side of the chapel is a two-storey gabled Sunday School wing constructed of stone, brick, and render, with windows that have bracketed sills. The gable end features a full-height round arch with pilasters and a blind oculus above, paired round-arched windows below with terracotta keystones, and a horizontal brick band that extends from a continuous hoodmould. The round arches at the basement storey are partially blocked. The side elevation includes two wide segmental basement arches with grilles and twinned windows with bracketed sills, as well as an arched entrance next to the chapel that has a wrought iron gate and a steep flight of stairs leading to the first floor.
At the front of the chapel, there is a cemetery wall made of stone, with an entrance flanked by two heavy rock-faced piers topped with pyramidal capstones. The entrance features double iron gates with spear railings and a lamp arch. There is also a short return in the churchyard, likely the remnants of the original boundary wall, which was mostly removed when the cemetery was extended.
Inside, the chapel has a three-sided raked gallery with a painted boarded front in panels, supported by slender cast iron piers with foliage capitals. The ceiling is boarded and segmental arched, and there is a boarded dado. The set fawr includes a wide platform with a central pulpit and a double staircase. To the right, there is a plaque dedicated to Thomas George of Waun Y Cof, who lived from 1824 to 1911 and was the agent of the Llanover Estate.
Local climate
Beulah Baptist Church and attached wing and gateway sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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