Tabernacle United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 October 1999. Church. 1 related planning application.
Tabernacle United Reformed Church
- WRENN ID
- outer-trefoil-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1999
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Tabernacle United Reformed Church is a geometrical style chapel built from snecked, rock-faced stone with lighter stone dressings and a slate roof. The entrance front, which faces the road, features three bays. The outer bays are set back with lean-tos that have diagonal buttresses and narrow cusped lancets. The central bay contains double doorways within a gabled portal, set under a pointed arch that displays the name and date of the building in engraved letters. The doorways are fitted with boarded doors and have moulded jambs and arches. Above the doorways and beneath the arch is a quatrefoil window. Above a string course, there are a pair of 2-light geometrical windows, with a cusped round window above and a small narrow vent located below the apex.
The side walls, which have four bays, feature two tiers of paired lancets, while a low clerestorey includes triple cusped lights in each bay. At the rear, there is a later vestry and school room that consists of a lower projection followed by a wide asymmetrical gable, which has pointed windows and a doorway, all covered by concrete tile roofs.
Inside, an entrance vestibule leads to the main chapel and gallery through doorways with panelled doors. The gallery is three-sided and raked, supported by a full-height four-bay arcade of wooden posts with arches, and similar arches at right angles over the gallery. The gallery front includes panels with diagonal boarding beneath open fret-cut arcading, along with an added steel handrail. The four-bay roof features arched braces to the principals, mirroring the arcade. Behind the pulpit, there is an added recess that projects into the vestry and houses the organ beneath a two-centred moulded arch. The pulpit is adorned with panels and openwork arcading, flanked by steps that have square moulded newels and balusters. Some windows contain coloured abstract glazing created by Glasslight Studios.
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