Tabernacle Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 December 1952. Chapel.
Tabernacle Chapel
- WRENN ID
- sheer-corbel-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1952
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Tabernacle Chapel, Rhayader
- OS grid reference
- SN 969 678
- Coordinates
- 52.29946, -3.51272
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Tabernacle Chapel is constructed of grey squared stone at the front, with rubble on the sides and rear, and features a slate roof. The gabled front has a pointed-arched window on the upper floor with Y-tracery. The ground floor includes a central Gothic arched entrance doorway set in a shallow porch, flanked by Gothic arched windows on each side. Each side of the building has two windows on both floors, each with pairs of Gothic lights. There is a chimney on the left side.
Local climate
Tabernacle Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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