Tabernacle Chapel

The Tabernacle Chapel, built in 1836, is a large building of painted stucco with a slate gabled roof, deep eaves, and prominent gable verges featuring Greek Revival mutules, a detail also found on Llandingat House. The chapel combines Gothic windows with classical detailing. It has a raised plinth, with a rusticated ground floor, a moulded band over, and channelled angle strips above. Four large pointed windows and two doorways are arranged symmetrically, with the windows of the two central bays being taller. The windows have marginal lights and intersecting Gothic bars in the heads, thought to have been reglazed in 1869, with coloured glass in the margins and the topmost pane featuring an IHS motif. Moulded pointed hoodmoulds are supported by short moulded corbels, and the sills are painted. The outer windows have unusually high heads.

A plaque on the front of the building reads 'Tabernacl Capel y Trefnyddion Calfinaidd Adeiladwyd MDCCCXXXVI'. The ground floor features two elliptical-arched doorways with radiating voussoirs and keystones, accessed by stone steps and broad 20th-century panelled double doors with plain fanlights. A memorial plaque is dedicated to Rev Rees Phillips (died 1854), with a Gothic-panelled surround featuring pilasters, a cornice, panelled obelisk finials, and an ogee curved top with an urn and a book inscribed with Hebrews 12:7. A coffin-shaped slab is inset into the tarmac in front. The west side of the chapel is clad in slate with overhanging gable verges, incorporating pointed windows on the upper floor and square-headed windows with 20th-century glazing below. The east side has a similar appearance but is rendered.

The interior is large and galleried. The gallery of 1869 is five-sided, with a timber front featuring a modillion cornice and brackets. It is supported by six iron posts. Painted and grained porches in the angles have coloured glass in the margins of the overlights to the doors and in the large square windows facing the pulpit. The organ cases, divided into two sections and set over each porch, are flanked by blocked gallery windows. Later 19th-century pine pews and a set fawr with turned balusters and newel posts topped with ball finials are also present. The 1869 pulpit platform has a panelled base, curved corners, and a top balustrade. The pulpit projects forward and is also balustraded with curved corners. Behind the pulpit is a pointed-arched plaster recess. A very large pointed arch frames the two central windows and is topped with a blank traceried rose, the ribs forming a Celtic cross. The coved cornice is narrow. The ceiling features an inner square with a double border framed by moulded ribs, with square panels at the corners and lozenges at the center of each side, linked to a central roundel by moulded ribs. The central roundel is a spiral acanthus rose with a vine trail within a circular border. The entrance porches include double doors leading to staircases for accessing the galleries, which turn at right angles.