Tabernacl Capel yr Annibynwyr (Welsh Independent) including vestry wing is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 July 1997. Chapel.
Tabernacl Capel yr Annibynwyr (Welsh Independent) including vestry wing
- WRENN ID
- eternal-grate-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1997
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Tabernacl Welsh Independent Chapel, including its vestry wing, was built in the 18th century. It is constructed of coursed rock-faced sandstone, with snecked sandstone to the vestry, rubble to the left side, and yellow brick dressings; the rear is rendered. The chapel has a tiled roof, while the vestry has a Welsh slate roof.
The chapel's gable end facade, which has three bays, is simple and faces forward. It features cambered arched margin-glazed sash windows, with the central window being a double window and having decorative yellow brick surrounds, quoins, and string courses. Above the central window is a small round-arched, louvred apex light with a date plaque below. A central cambered arch provides the doorway, with a margin-glazed overlight and double diagonally boarded doors. A front courtyard and garden are enclosed by a stone wall with a high end, gate piers with pyramidal caps, and iron railings and gates. Railings also line the paths. The side elevation to Meadow Street has similar windows with margin glazing at gallery level, and 13-pane glazing incorporating small casements at ground floor; blue brick plinth courses incorporate ventilation grilles.
The vestry wing has square-headed, margin-glazed, horned sashes, with a ground-floor range incorporating margin-glazed overlights and a moulded ashlar head with a hood mould. The end right window is blocked. Two steps lead to an ashlar doorway on the left, which has an entablature head, overlight, and a pediment; a date plaque is above the doorway.
Inside, the chapel has a three-sided raked gallery supported on eight cast iron piers with foliage capitals, a deep boarded soffit supported by decorative brackets, a polished wood front with contrasting staining, and boarded panels. The plastered coved ceiling has a large central rose with four small corner ventilators. The ground floor pews also have contrasting staining, and a boarded dado. A unique light wood, curved, panelled "set fawr" is present, along with a central pulpit with flanking balustraded staircases. Behind the pulpit is a large organ by Martin and Coate of Oxford, the pipes of which largely fill and partially obscure a recessed plaster reredos. The reredos consists of a high, round-headed arch with enriched decoration, fluted pilasters, and Corinthian capitals, and is flanked by two wall monuments, including a 1930 war memorial. Gas lamps remain in place. The glazing is plain, except in the vestibule. The vestry retains its original furnishings, including doors, surrounds, dado, and wooden floor.
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