Wesleyan Methodist Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 June 1952. A Victorian Chapel.
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- nether-postern-storm
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1952
- Type
- Chapel
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Monmouth
- OS grid reference
- SO 510 129
- Coordinates
- 51.81262, -2.71185
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel is a 19th-century building with a stucco front that is painted, featuring a Welsh slate roof that is not visible from the street. It has a rectangular, three-bay temple fronted plan, with the main elevation topped by a pediment supported by four Ionic pilasters with Ionic capitals. The front is two storeys high, with ground floor windows that are pedimented and consist of 9 over 6 pane sashes. At the centre of the ground floor, there is a wide porch with four paired fluted Ionic columns and capitals that support a plain entablature with a moulded cornice and panelled doors. The first floor windows are set in recessed arches and have arched heads above 6 over 6 pane sashes. In the centre of the pediment, there is a panel supported by scrolls that reads 'Methodist Chapel 1837'.
The rear elevation features two tall arched windows with 9 over 12 pane sashes, which flank the pulpit. The side elevations have square-headed windows below and arched windows for the galleries.
Inside, the chapel retains all its original galleries and pulpit, with ascending steps on each side, and is generally little changed. The galleries have panelled fronts and console brackets supported on Ionic columns. There is a fine organ from around 1900, complete with an iron railing and clock on the gallery below. The floor was raised by two feet in 1885, which covered the column bases and reduced the height of the pulpit. The ceiling is flat with a coved cornice and a central roundel. An inner porch was added in 1992, and the entire building was redecorated between 1992 and 1993.
Local climate
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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