Y Tabernacl/Tabernacle Chapel

This is a large, imposing Gothic chapel building dating from the 18th century, constructed of squared brown rubble stone with extensive grey ashlar dressings. The chapel is prominently positioned with an ornate front gable facing the street, raised above a basement storey.

The front elevation features a tall central gable with flanking buttresses. The buttress on the right extends upwards to an octagonal stone spirelet and outer stair towers projecting to the sides, topped by steep, five-sided slate roofs with red tile cresting. A projecting ground floor sits centrally beneath the gable, with a sloping ashlar roof and a gable above a moulded, segmental-pointed doorway with a dripmould and double ledged doors. Small paired lancet windows are located on either side of the doorway, each with a hoodmould. An ashlar plinth supports a broad double flight of steps with ornate iron railings leading to the entrance. The principal window above is constructed of Bath stone with tracery of three cusped lancets under three hexafoils, set within a grey ashlar frame, hoodmould, and flush band on each side. Above this, a stepped-up flush band leads to the sill of a small triple lancet vent with linked hoodmoulds. A coped gable finishes the gable end with a finial.

The flanking stair towers have rubble stone plinths and an ashlar band above. They feature two superimposed, two-light pointed windows with Bath stone plate tracery, grey ashlar surrounds and hoods. The upper window breaks the moulded eaves cornice beneath a coped gable with a finial. The outer ends of the stair towers are buttressed at the lower level, and then the angles are chamfered back, featuring a narrow, long lancet window over the buttresses, and a small, blank loop on the chamfered angles. A moulded stone eaves cornice runs along the top.

The side elevations are simpler, with buttressing and four-window arrangements over three storeys, incorporating a basement Sunday school and two levels of the chapel itself. The chapel windows have painted timber Y-tracery to the pointed upper lights and segmental-pointed lower lights. The roof is steeply pitched and banded with purple and blue slates, with red tile cresting. Four gabled vents are present on each roof slope. The substantial rear gable features a large, pointed apex light, mirroring the windows on the side elevations at the main levels, but flanking a central triple lancet window.

Iron railings enclose the double flight of steps to the front of the building, continuing to each side with matching double gates positioned between heavy, gabled ashlar piers. The chapel was not inspected internally.