Tabernacle Congregational Chapel, including forecourt gates and wall, and attached vestries. is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 August 2000. Chapel.

Tabernacle Congregational Chapel, including forecourt gates and wall, and attached vestries.

WRENN ID
iron-panel-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 August 2000
Type
Chapel
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Chapel in rock-faced brown stone in low courses; freestone dressings (brick dressings to sides), slate roof. Gabled Gothic front with end buttresses and pinnacles. Quatrefoil in gable; central doorway with windowq above of 2 lights with quatrefoil; tall 2-light round-headed window to each side (hardwood glazing). Forecourt enclosed by low stone wall with cast-iron railings with fleur-de-lys finials; iron gatepiers with semi-circular overthrow with similar finials; cast-iron gates in matching style. Sides of chapel have windows at 2 levels, round-arched over camber-headed. To rear, at right angles, vestry/hall blockwith flat-roofed kitchen block behind.,

Very fine unaltered interior. Lobby with flanking stairs to gallery; stained glass on chapel side is good War Memorial window (1949). Flat boarded and ribbed ceiling to body of chapel with 3 elaborate roses, decorative vents to sides, and classicising cornice. Fine gallery on iron columns runs round all 4 sides, dropping behind pulpit and in front of organ; wooden gallery frontal with arcading and bracketing; clock opposite pulpit. To rear, organ by Brinley and Foster with exposed pipes in decorative case; all original wooden seating at gallery level, and also to body of chapel. Octagonal pulpit flanked by stairs with iron balustrading. Behind body of chapel, Deacon's room and Vestry/Schoolroom block with unaltered stage, glass screen to kitchen, open roof with iron ties.

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