Tabernacle Congregational Chapel

The Tabernacle Congregational Chapel is a notable building with a gable front facing the road, flanked by outer porches and connected by a narthex. The northeast porch supports a sheer tower topped with a blunt octagonal cap, while the northwest porch is a single-storey structure that projects forward from a corner stair block with a hipped swept-eaves roof. The center features a broad arched window with a configuration of 2-3-2 lights, framed by flat buttresses that extend through a coped gable to ashlar flat tops. The gable displays a prominent ashlar date plaque at the apex, beneath a segmental cornice, along with a carved winged head. Above the main window, there is a band of chequer-work. The narthex has a flat roof with a parapet and a central bay window, with ashlar mullioned windows connected by flush banding to the outer porches. These porches are constructed of ashlar between shallow buttresses that exhibit unusual schematic classical details, including dentils on the lintel that are cut flush to the leading edge. Each doorway is adorned with a carved winged head. The tower rises sheer, featuring shallow clasping buttresses leading to the top stage, which has 3-light mullion windows above flush chequer banding. These windows begin to splay on each side, interrupted by buttresses that extend to caps just below the octagonal chequered top.

The northwest corner pavilion includes clasping buttresses and has two single-light windows under the eaves, topped with a swept hipped roof. The side elevations have five windows and are raised on a full-height basement. The southwest chapel house is plain and roughcast, featuring a door and one window. The southeast wing matches the chapel side and includes a ground floor lean-to and an eastern stack.

Inside, there is a broad central space with 3-bay arcades, featuring moulded round arches on ashlar piers with labels to the cornices. A large transverse arch is present at the southern end. The ceiling is boarded, with a trussed collar-beam roof supported by stone corbels. The chapel contains good contemporary woodwork fittings, including curving pews, panelled gallery fronts at the northern and southern ends, an elders seat with a central pulpit, and a panelled front. An organ case dating from around 1925 is also present. The gardens are enclosed to the northeast and northwest by fine Art Nouveau railings made of wrought iron, which are dated around 1910 and feature circular tops.