Capel y Tabernacl

Capel y Tabernacl is a chapel built of checkered red and blue brick in Flemish bond with pale ashlar dressings, rendered to the sides, and has a Welsh slate roof hipped to the rear, including a ridge ventilator. The plan features a gable-end frontage with flanking side bays, and a hipped rear cross wing to the left, alongside a porch entrance at the rear right. The central bay is characterized by a high recessed arch reaching to the height of the pediment. This incorporates a large round arched five-light window with coloured glazing, featuring red and buff ashlar voussoirs and three orders formed by brick slips, a narrow impost band incorporating orange and green tiles, deep splayed piers, and bands of vertical bricks at plinth, capital, and pediment levels. The central pair of round-headed doorways share matching red and buff voussoirs and semi-circular overlights, attached polygonal piers with capitals, lintels to square-headed double-panelled doors, and a decorative rectangular inscription panel with motif panels on either side. The bay terminates on each side in a polygonal pier, with dedication stones at the base rising to pediment level, and narrow blind slits at the top, echoed in small triple blind slits in the apex. A datestone is located below. Recessed bays with hipped roofs, dentil eaves, and long recessed staircase windows are present on each side. The side elevation has four bays, with two storeys of windows, round arched to the gallery level and square headed below, all with altered glazing.

The interior presents a mix of traditional 1900s chapel furnishings with a strong 1930s influence, particularly evident in the decorative motifs. A raked three-sided gallery is supported by hidden girders rather than columns and features polished wood fronting with inlaid panels and a carved frieze, with intervening, more decoratively carved small bays projecting forward, and a central clock. The segmental arched plaster ceiling is divided into five bays by ribs, with four ventilators featuring decorative plaster star-shaped Art Deco surrounds and plaster label stops to the ribs. A moulded round-headed arched recess, originally housing a small orchestra and now containing the organ (which came from Gomer Chapel, Swansea), is present. Below is a central carved pulpit and flanking seats with wood and painted wrought iron panelled fronts and decorative curved panelled set fawr. Gas lamps remain in situ on the side walls. A moulded dado and double doors leading to the vestibule include gothick moulding; round-headed windows to the vestibule feature coloured glass.