Chapel of former Pen-y-fal Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 June 1992. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Chapel of former Pen-y-fal Hospital
- WRENN ID
- distant-loft-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1992
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Chapel of former Pen-y-fal Hospital, Abergavenny, NP7 5LX
- OS grid reference
- SO 304 143
- Coordinates
- 51.82324, -3.00986
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Chapel of the former Pen-y-fal Hospital is a 19th-century church built in a cruciform shape, designed in the Decorated Gothic style. It features snecked bull-nosed red sandstone rubble masonry, accented with freestone bands and window dressings, and has a tall natural slate roof topped with red tile cresting. The church includes a 4-bay nave, transepts, an apsidal chancel, and an octagonal fleche at the crossing.
The west front showcases a 5-light Geometric window above a full-width porch with twin gable arched entrances, flanked by single light windows. The main window has a taller central light and three quatrefoils in the head. The nave is adorned with lancet windows set between stepped buttresses. The transept windows are four-light and similar in style to the west end window. The main entrance is now located at the north transept, where a gabled porch intersects with the base of the window above. A cylindrical chimney stack is present on the south transept. The east end is semi-octagonal, featuring gables above 2-light ogee windows. The roofs are very steeply pitched, and the fleche is topped with an open traceried bellcote and a crocketed top.
The interior was not inspected during the resurvey, but a scissor truss roof was reported at the time of listing in 1992.
Local climate
Chapel of former Pen-y-fal Hospital receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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