Tabernacle Chapel including attached Hall and forecourt railings is a Grade II* listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1975. Chapel.
Tabernacle Chapel including attached Hall and forecourt railings
- WRENN ID
- narrow-porch-lark
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1975
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Chapel. Painted stucco. Classicising front of 2 storeys. Crowning entablature and parapet with inscription "Tabernacle", "Built 1821", "Rebuilt 1865". Group of 4 round-headed windows to recessed centre of upper part; balustrade between projecting end stair towers with windows enclosed in pedimented architraves. On ground floor, 4 round-headed doorways to centre; to ends blind round-headed windows enclosed by channelled rustication.
To R, set back, lower 2-storey vestry/schoolroom block in similar style and materials. Hipped slate roof behind parapet. Three round-headed windows with keystones to top floor; on ground floor, central with round-headed doorway and rusticated pilasters; window to each side. Forecourt defined by iron railings with gates to centre (gatepiers with acorn finials) and both ends.
Shallow lobby with wood and glass screen to inner lobby in body of chapel, with similar screen. Lobby has doorways to stair towers. Body of chapel has flat coffered ceiling with large fretted metal rose. Gallery to all 4 sides with fretted metal balustrade, on iron columns with floral capitals. Broad arch to rear organ recess, below which is wooden pulpit, and set fawr enclosure with wrought iron balustrade. Wooden pews. Early C20 stained glass to side windows (Virtues), and 2 of front windows, (Baptism of Christ and Last Supper).
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