Attached Vestry Range to Tabernacle Presbyterian Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1994. Chapel.
Attached Vestry Range to Tabernacle Presbyterian Chapel
- WRENN ID
- twisted-ashlar-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1994
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The attached vestry range to the Tabernacle Presbyterian Chapel is a Calvinistic Methodist Chapel built in 1837, with a significant rebuilding in 1861 and later alterations in 1927. The building features unpainted roughcast walls, a hipped slate roof, and bracketed flat eaves, giving it a large-scale appearance.
The rear west elevation, facing Gomer Crescent, is two-storey with three windows. It has well-spaced large arched upper windows and rectangular ground floor windows, all with unpainted architraves and 1927 leaded glazing. The ground floor on the right includes a single-storey porch with a side-wall door. The north and south elevations each have two windows, with slightly longer upper arched windows.
The front elevation is obscured by a large schoolroom built in 1892 that extends towards the street. To the left, there is a main porch that was possibly added in 1927, featuring two long narrow arched windows above it and a slate roundel that commemorates the building's original construction in 1837 and its rebuilding in 1861. The porch is large, with a timber open pediment over an arched doorway, flanked by one window on each side, and a hipped roof. The double doors are topped with a large leaded fanlight dated 1927.
The vestry range has six arched windows on the south side and a gable with a yellow brick stack positioned between the fourth and fifth windows. The 1927 remodeling changed the building's orientation, moving the entry from the side where the pulpit is located.
Inside, the gallery wraps around three sides without supporting columns, featuring chamfered angles and a panelled timber front divided by curved pedimented panels with framing piers and lozenge inserts. The boarded timber ceiling is arranged in panels with a coved border. The semi-circular great seat has a panelled back, and the pulpit has a panelled front with steps on each side. Behind the pulpit is a large organ from 1896 made by Vowles. To the right of the organ is a 1927 stained glass window dedicated to Rev W Jenkins Jones (1852-1925), a missionary to Brittany, created by J Hall and Sons.
The schoolroom features arch-braced trusses supporting an 8-bay roof.
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