Entrance Screen to the Tabernacle is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1976. Entrance screen.
Entrance Screen to the Tabernacle
- WRENN ID
- tenth-spandrel-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1976
- Type
- Entrance screen
- Address
- Entrance Screen to the Tabernacle, Church Street, Trowbridge, BA14 8DY
- OS grid reference
- ST 855 581
- Coordinates
- 51.32225, -2.20893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance screen to the Tabernacle, built around the 1880s, features a large central gateway flanked by two subsidiary gateways, showcasing a blend of medieval styles. The central section has a gable and a four-centred arch with a traceried oculus above, along with a scroll that is inscribed with 'The Tabernacle AD...(obscured)'. It includes two nook shafts and buttresses. The side gateways are linked by arcades that feature pointed arches on nook shafts, a string course, and a flat parapet above. The entrance is adorned with fine cast and wrought iron gates, which have pierced plate bases, flowers with scrolled stems above, and plate leaves below the top bars, as well as fleurs-de-lis on the top rail. The screen is part of a group that includes the former Sunday School, the former 'Institute' to the east, the Tabernacle United Reformed Church, and nearby structures at Nos 24 to 26 and 2 and 3 Tabernacle Cottages.
Local climate
Entrance Screen to the Tabernacle receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
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