Tabernacl Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 February 1998. Chapel.
Tabernacl Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- dark-copper-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1998
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Tabernacl Baptist Chapel, Maes-Y-Berllan, Brecon, Felin-Fach
- OS grid reference
- SO 085 339
- Coordinates
- 51.99667, -3.33271
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Tabernacl Baptist Chapel is a building with roughcast render and a slate roof that features a half-hipped design. It has a yellow brick chimney on the east side. The entrance consists of a central doorway with boarded doors and a semi-circular overlight above it. On both the first and ground floors, there are two round-arched windows with small-pane metal glazing. A central plaque notes that this Baptist Tabernacle was erected in 1746, with subsequent phases in 1807 and 1835. The left side of the chapel has two 16-pane sash windows at the upper level and two 24-pane sash windows at the ground floor. The rear includes two round-arched sash windows, while the right side features a later long parallel vestry with a lean-to roof, above which are two 16-pane sash windows.
Inside, the chapel has a boarded ceiling and a U-plan gallery supported by Roman Doric iron columns, with a panelled wooden gallery frontal. The wooden stairs are adorned with classicising newels. The wooden pulpit is decorated with barley-sugar balusters and elegant rails, and there is a panelled set fawr enclosure. The seating consists of wooden benches arranged in three banks.
Local climate
Tabernacl Baptist Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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