Tabernacle Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 September 1961. A Historic Chapel.

Tabernacle Methodist Chapel

WRENN ID
graven-buttress-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 September 1961
Type
Chapel
Period
Historic
Address
Tabernacle Methodist Chapel, Aberaeron
OS grid reference
SN 457 630
Coordinates
52.24368, -4.26116
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Tabernacle Methodist Chapel is a broad, two-storey classical building constructed from rubble, featuring freestone rusticated quoins, a band course, and a plinth. The overall structure is finished with scribed cement render, and it has a pediment with bracket cornices and a blind bullseye. The ends of the building have flank parapets adorned with garlanded urns, which are also present at the apex. The first floor has four Venetian Renaissance bipartite windows, each with keystones and bracket cills. There are paired pitched roof porches in a late Georgian style, flanked by blind recesses, supported by tapered columns on high bases, and featuring four-panel double doors. The sides of the chapel are rendered in cement, while the rear has a brick buttress.

Inside, the chapel retains an earlier plan type but includes later fittings. An organ and a large seat, which was originally on rollers, are located against the entrance front. The raked gallery features some Renaissance details supported by cast iron columns, with a panelled front, squat pilasters, embossed decoration, and a bracket cornice.

Local climate

Tabernacle Methodist Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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