Salem Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 October 2000. A 19th century Chapel.

Salem Baptist Chapel

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 October 2000
Type
Chapel
Period
19th century
Address
Salem Baptist Chapel, Llangwm, Usk, Llantrisant Fawr
OS grid reference
ST 424 999
Coordinates
51.69563, -2.83374
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Salem Baptist Chapel is a chapel featuring cement render and a slate roof, complete with an end chimney. It has a gable entry design and a large full-width gabled addition at the front. The chapel includes pointed openings, with three windows featuring later 19th-century Y-tracery on each side wall. The east gable has similar windows on each side and a pointed blank window in the gable, all situated above a broad porch addition. The porch has a slightly advanced center with a datestone from 1840, above a small pointed blank recess and a tall pointed door. The set-back bays on each side contain single tall pointed blank recesses. At the rear, there is a west lean-to vestry with a pointed door beneath a blank pointed recess in the north end wall. An applied sandstone plinth surrounds both the chapel and the porch.

Inside, the chapel has a plain whitewashed interior with a gallery at the entrance end. It features late 19th-century or early 20th-century pews, and a minimal pulpit enclosed by a plain balustraded rail. The gallery is supported by two square fluted timber piers and has a plain front with a moulded top rail and a simple moulded cornice below the piers. The raked gallery floor contains two rows of old panelled pews and three rows of benches. The single flight of gallery stairs has stick balusters and one turned bulbous newel. There are double doors leading into the porch, with a panelled dado on each side and part of the north wall.

Local climate

Salem Baptist Chapel receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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