Tabor Independent Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 February 1999. Chapel.
Tabor Independent Chapel
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1999
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Tabor Independent Chapel, built in 1904, stands on a basement and is two stories high, constructed of painted stucco with an imitation slate roof, decorative bargeboards, and a terracotta finial to the front gable. The gabled front is divided into three bays, featuring a recessed roundel that reads: "Tabor Built 1845. Rebuilt 1904." The upper storey has arched windows with raised, shouldered surrounds, a central triplet of a large central light flanked by narrower, similar lights, and a single, shorter window on each side; keystones are present on the triplet. Stucco pilasters mark the corners, and a raised cornice separates the stories. The ground floor includes cambered-headed windows and a large, projecting central entrance lobby with a triplet window. Rusticated quoins and window dressings are present. The projecting lobby has an entablature with a painted frieze and a cornice moulding that corresponds with the upper floor cornice. Below the windows are three memorial stones and a pair of blank arches. A secondary arched entry is in the right-side wall with panelled double doors and a simple fanlight. Horned sash windows with marginal glazing bars are found throughout the building. The side elevations are of three stories and three bays, with arched windows to the top floor and cambered-headed windows elsewhere. The basement windows have been altered, and a door on the right side has a porch with a stone end wall and an imitation slate roof.
The interior, dating to 1904, was carefully restored in 1989. A three-sided, raked gallery with canted angles and a slightly deeper rear is supported by six painted, fluted, cast iron columns with florid capitals and a bracketed cornice. The gallery front features long, horizontal panels, with similar shorter panels on the canted angles. The pews create two aisles and contain a set fawr, both panelled to match the gallery. The pulpit has curved stairs with turned balusters on each side, and a canted front with a pair of arched-headed panels with small columns in the centre and horizontal panels on the canted sides. A canted base also features horizontal panels. A large, arched recess is located behind the pulpit, featuring panelled pilasters, a moulded arch, and a keystone. The ceiling has a deep moulded cornice followed by a timber border with pierced ventilation panels at the corners and diagonal slatting elsewhere, with a plaster centre divided into four sections by moulded beams, terminating at an outer ring of a central rose. The rose features two moulded rings with 15 floral bosses in a band between, and a large pendant, likely originally for a gasolier, is surrounded by a pierced ornamental iron grille.
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