Tabernacle Independent Chapel

The Tabernacle Independent Chapel, dated 1845, is a notable building of group value. The front elevation features a broad gable clad in 20th-century dry-dash rendering, topped by a half-hipped slate roof with bracketed eaves, the short, sloping verges slightly returned. It has three round-headed openings on the upper floor, and two below, all with recessed dressed sandstone voussoirs to the heads. These are framed by blind radiating tracery with scalloped edges, above late 20th-century windows. A centrally positioned arch-headed door is set in unpainted stucco, and is surrounded by a late 19th or early 20th-century design featuring two pilasters and a minimal pediment framing a recessed plaque reading "Tabernacle Independent Chapel 1845". The door has a fanlight with radiating tracery above double 3-panel doors. A raised plinth supports the building, and a forecourt is accessed by a wide flight of steps. The two-storey side elevations are constructed from stone rubble and incorporate stone voussoirs to the windows, which have 20th-century glazing. A roughcast, 20th-century rear addition accommodates the organ.

The interior appears to be of several periods. A coved ceiling features ornate, earlier 20th-century fluting and console brackets, seemingly applied to an original 1845 cove, evidenced by the fine centre rose. The gallery is also of mixed date, with decorative panels of earlier 20th-century fibrous plaster added at the time of the fourth gallery side, built for the organ loft; however, the basic gallery structure, resting on five cast-iron columns, appears to be from the later 19th century. The gallery end is shallowly curved, potentially original, but possibly a modification. The interior features pitch-pine framing to long horizontal panels, with plaster decorations in a Renaissance style including vase-and-scroll motifs, and is divided by applied plaster fluted pilasters with broadly reeded piers, incorporating neo-classical festoons to the centre and ends of the side galleries. A clock is situated in the centre of the centre gallery. The organ gallery behind the pulpit has two similar long panels with plaster decoration. Half-glazed doors with Art Nouveau style leaded glass are positioned on each side of the pulpit and under the galleries. A lobby has matching glazing to a four-light window and two cambered-headed double doors, framed by fluted pilasters and a dentil cornice. The dog-leg gallery stairs have ball-finial newel posts. The pews are arranged in three blocks with angled outer pews and inward-facing pews flanking the pulpit. They have flat cornices, scrolled armrests, and vertical boarding to the backs. Raked pews are present in the galleries. The set fawr has curved angles and matching bench ends. A large and ornate pulpit platform faces the organ gallery, with straight steps up each side and panelled platform fronts on either side of the half-round pulpit, which features six columns, panels between, an enriched central panel, and a moulded cornice. Pitch-pine panelling is situated behind the organ gallery. A very large organ built in 1926 is housed within a timber case.