Tabernacle Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 March 2000. Chapel.

Tabernacle Chapel

WRENN ID
shifting-window-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 March 2000
Type
Chapel
Address
Tabernacle Chapel, Skewen, Coedffranc
OS grid reference
SS 727 973
Coordinates
51.66027, -3.84104
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Tabernacle Chapel is a classical-style building constructed with roughcast and topped with a slate roof. Its three-bay front features rusticated dressings and pilasters with moulded capitals, all beneath a plain cornice that leads to a pedimented gable. The outer bays are adorned with tall round-headed windows, while the central bay contains double panelled doors topped by a semi-circular overlight. Above the doors, there is a three-light window with a segmental head, featuring round-headed lights, with the center light being wider. The pediment displays an elliptical tablet that records the name and date of the chapel. Attached walls flank the building, set back from the angles.

The left side wall has five tall round-headed windows, and the right side wall mirrors this design. At the rear, there is a narrow lean-to that also features round-headed windows similar to those on the sides.

Inside, the vestibule includes coloured glass panels opposite the doorway, panelled doors leading to the main chapel, and moulded newels and balusters for the gallery stairs. The main chapel boasts a panelled ceiling with moulded ribs and three ceiling roses. A three-sided raked gallery is supported by thin cast iron columns with moulded capitals and features a panelled front. Behind the pulpit is a plain baluster front that houses the organ, which is set within an earlier semi-circular arch, possibly intended as a stage for choirs, similar to the arrangement at nearby Horeb Chapel. The pulpit itself is polygonal with a fretwork-panelled front, flanked by steps that have turned balusters and square newels.

Local climate

Tabernacle Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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