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

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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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