Tabernacle Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 May 1993. Chapel.
Tabernacle Chapel
- WRENN ID
- watchful-groin-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1993
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Tabernacle Chapel, Aberdyfi, Aberdovey, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SN 616 960
- Coordinates
- 52.54447, -4.04209
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Tabernacle Chapel is a simple-Classical, gable-fronted chapel built of stone with a slate roof, dating from 1864. The main elevation is symmetrical with four windows, featuring scribed render and a pediment treatment, along with raised stone quoins. It has round-headed windows with bracketed hoodmoulds, sills, and small-pane glazing. The full-height outer windows illuminate the gallery stairs, while two smaller windows are located centrally above the paired round-headed entrances, which retain panelled doors and fanlights. The front of the chapel displays two inscribed tablets; one on the gable reads "Tabernacl Adeiladwyd 1864" and the other, positioned lower at the centre, states "Tabernacl ir Methodistiadd Calfinaidd yn y Flwyddyn 1828."
Attached to the right is an enlarged single-storey chapel hall featuring conical ventilators on the roof and a gabled porch that projects forward from the front of the chapel, which includes a round-headed side doorway. The side elevations are pebbledashed with four windows that mirror the round-headed style of the main front, while the rear is cement-rendered.
Access to the chapel is via slate steps that are enclosed at the base with iron gates featuring spearhead finials and panelled gate-piers, all made by the Coalbrookdale Company from Shropshire. Iron handrails with octagonal newels line the steps.
Inside, the chapel has a scribed-rendered ceiling adorned with roses and painted borders. The raked gallery, which is curved at the front, is supported by simply detailed cast-iron columns. The 'set fawr' and panelled platform are intact, and the segmental arch leading to the organ chamber is flanked by fluted Corinthian pilasters. While the organ case remains, the organ itself has been removed. As of April 1993, all seating had been taken out and the chapel was disused.
Local climate
Tabernacle Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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