Tabernacle Baptist Chapel

Tabernacle Baptist Chapel is a 19th-century building constructed primarily of snecked rubble masonry, reportedly made from ballast unloaded from ships at Penycae. It features Penmon stone dressings, including quoins and a cill band, and displays the Prince of Wales feathers at the apex. The front façade has a broad three-window gable flanked by doorways, with a corbelled parapet and gable-topped buttresses that have setoffs. Above a tall five-light window adorned with a large petal pattern oculus, there is a curved-sided triangular attic opening with a cavetto moulded surround and a stopped label. The side windows have cusped Y-tracery, and a similar window is found at the base of the octagonal tower, which is positioned above the main entrance featuring double boarded doors; there is also a similar entrance at the right end. The schoolroom is illuminated by a centrally located almost triangular window, also five-light, but with double cusping and a quatrefoil oculus.

The spire rises from an octagonal drum base that has blind Y-tracery windows and implied lucarnes, topped with a ball finial and weathervane. A miniature version of the spire is located at the right corner of the gable to create balance. There is a further recessed doorway at the extreme left end.

The rear of the chapel includes a lower rubble vestry chamber with a chimney stack and a boarded-up tall Gothic window on the gable end. The front features chamfered gate piers with Gothic panels, along with iron gates that have a simple overthrow and lamp.

Inside, the chapel has a rectangular Gothic design with a gallery at the front end only. It is supported by cast iron fluted piers with foliage capitals and cusped uprights that sweep outwards at either end of the gallery front. The pews, which have tall finials, are slightly raked. The coved ceiling is enhanced by deep triangular brackets and arched braces, with ventilation rubs radiating from a large foliage-ornamented central rose and smaller roses at either end; much of the detail is painted ironwork. There is Gothic balustrading around the platform and ‘set fawr’ with lamp standards, and an inscription is present in the tall arched recess on the end wall. Slender cast iron columns support the basement hall.