Entrance gates with vestry to Tabernacle Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 June 2004. Gates and vestry.

Entrance gates with vestry to Tabernacle Chapel

WRENN ID
inner-parapet-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 June 2004
Type
Gates and vestry
Address
Entrance gates with vestry to Tabernacle Chapel, Llandovery
OS grid reference
SN 768 344
Coordinates
51.99475, -3.79479
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The entrance gates and vestry to the Tabernacle Chapel date from the early 19th century and are located between buildings that enclose the forecourt of the chapel. The gates are a pair of broad wrought iron structures featuring spearheads and dogbars. They have a double rail adorned with lozenges above the dogbars and spearheads. The top rail includes scrolls beneath and trifurcated points positioned between plain spearheads. There is a small remnant of a scrolled overthrow. The narrow side pieces have dog bars but lack scroll ornamentation.

The vestry is constructed of unpainted roughcast and has imitation slate roofs. It is a single-storey building divided into two sections. The left lower part is attached to the corner of the chapel and features a brick stack at the left end, a central door, and a large 12-pane sash window to the right against the end wall of the schoolroom. The main vestry or schoolroom is taller with close eaves, a roughcast stack at the right end, two outer doors, and two central windows arranged in a chapel style. The double doors have small-paned overlights, and there are long narrow windows with 6 panes below 2-pane opening top-lights. The end wall facing the street has three windows framed in yellow brick, also with top-lights over fixed lights.

Local climate

Entrance gates with vestry to Tabernacle Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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