Tabernacle Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1984. Chapel.
Tabernacle Chapel
- WRENN ID
- errant-keep-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1984
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Tabernacle Chapel, Tabernacle Pitch, Wotton-Under-Edge
- OS grid reference
- ST 756 935
- Coordinates
- 51.63998, -2.35351
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tabernacle Chapel is a chapel that has been converted into a museum, built in 1850. It features squared grey rubble with cream dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The design is in a four-bay 'lancet style' with a western extension that includes entrance lobbies and staircases leading to the galleries. The west gable is flanked by twin turrets, one of which extends into a spirelet, and has a 'lancet' corbel table. The building is supported by clamp buttresses and has double lancets in the flanking bays, along with a triple lancet at the west end and a corbel table at the eaves.
Inside, the walls are made of exposed rubble, and there is a gallery on three sides supported by cast iron columns. The ceiling is boarded, but the roof principals are partially exposed and arch-braced in alternate bays. At the east end gable, there is an octofoil light surrounded by 16 small circular openings. A new partition screen has been added under the entrance gallery, and the original seating has been removed to create space for a Roman pavement facsimile from Woodchester Park.
Local climate
Tabernacle Chapel receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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