Capel Tabor including attached vestry to right and gates and railings is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 September 2000. A Late C19 Church.

Capel Tabor including attached vestry to right and gates and railings

WRENN ID
under-lintel-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 September 2000
Type
Church
Address
Capel Tabor including attached vestry to right and gates and railings, Llangwyryfon, Aberystwyth
OS grid reference
SN 597 706
Coordinates
52.31602, -4.05955
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a chapel, along with an attached vestry, gates, and railings. The chapel itself dates from the 18th century and is constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof and bracketed eaves. The front of the chapel features a large rubble stone wall with square-headed openings, each framed with stone voussoirs. The central section has two tall windows with arch-headed coloured glass margins, and two doors. There are also two windows above, with 16 panes of glass, designed to illuminate a gallery. The doors are from the late 19th century, constructed with panelled wood featuring diagonal boarding within the panels. A blocked doorway, similarly framed with stone voussoirs, is visible on the left end wall. The rear of the chapel is two stories high, with three windows on each floor. The lower windows have horned sashes with marginal bars, while the upper windows are hornless sashes.

Attached to the left of the front wall are double iron gates with spearhead railings and dog-bars. A single stone pier with a mounting block is also attached.

The vestry is attached to the right side of the chapel and set back, forming an L-shape. It features a yellow brick ridge stack. The ground floor on the left side has a door and a four-pane sash window with a stone voussoir. The first floor on the left has a 12-pane sash window with a yellow brick head. The broad gable on the right has two windows on the first floor with yellow brick heads and 20th-century glazing. The ground floor features a blocked cart entry with a red brick arch, a door, and a window, all with stone voussoirs. A stone staircase leads to a porch block angled away from the facade. The rear of the vestry also has yellow-brick heads to the upper windows. A rear wing has a cart entry with a yellow brick arch and a large window above with stone voussoirs. The exterior of the rear wing has been rendered in the 20th century and features two windows and a door leading up to a first-floor level.

The interior of the chapel is notable for its elaborate design. A pulpit is located on the front wall. A three-sided gallery wraps around much of the interior, supported by seven iron columns with leaf capitals. The gallery front has a deep cornice with zig-zag moulding and paired brackets beneath long panels, which are divided by panelled pilasters. The pilasters have roundel details in their mid panels, and paired brackets instead of capitals. There are numbered pitch pine pews with roll-top doors, some facing inward towards the pulpit. The set fawr (a decorative area) has an unusual Jacobean-style fretwork back made of pierced interlinked circles and coved-armed crosses. The newels at the entrances mirror the panel details and feature shaped finials. The pulpit is relatively narrow, without a platform, and is painted a light brown. It has a canted front with curving steps and turned balusters on either side. The stair newels match the details of the set fawr. The front of the pulpit has trefoil-head panels and heavy angle columns with carved capitals, coloured darkly, beneath a moulded cornice and a dark-painted bookrest. Behind the pulpit is an arch panelled in light brown grained wood. Entrance lobbies project from under the ends of the gallery, with boarded windows facing the pulpit – each featuring a coloured glass margin and diagonally-crossed glazing bars. The ceiling is coved, bordering a plain plaster surface with a simple roundel in the centre and four square pierced vents.

Local climate

Capel Tabor including attached vestry to right and gates and railings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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