We present results from an analysis of two Chandra observations of the rich , nearby galaxy cluster Abell 2199 .
We find evidence ( having corrected for projection effects ) for radial gradients in temperature and metallicity in the X-ray emitting gas : the temperature drops from kT \sim 4.2 keV at R=200 kpc to 1.6 keV within R=5 kpc of the centre .
The metallicity rises from \sim 0.3 solar at R=200 kpc to \sim 0.7 solar at R=30 kpc before dropping to 0.3 solar within the central 5 kpc .
We find evidence for structure in the surface brightness distribution associated with the central radio source 3C338 .
No evidence is found for the gas having a large spread in temperature at any particular location despite the cooling time being short ( < 10 ^ { 9 } yr ) within the central \sim 15 kpc .
Heating and mass cooling rates are calculated for various assumptions about the state of the gas .