Capel Tabernacl (Welsh Baptist Church) is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 January 1988. Church.
Capel Tabernacl (Welsh Baptist Church)
- WRENN ID
- under-cellar-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Capel Tabernacl (Welsh Baptist Church), Morganstown, Park
- OS grid reference
- SO 047 066
- Coordinates
- 51.75065, -3.38118
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Capel Tabernacl, a Welsh Baptist Church, features a wide gabled front constructed with snecked stone facings and pale freestone dressings. It has a slate roof behind a kneelered parapet that is topped with a ball finial. The front includes triple ventilators in a banded frame above a large first-floor arch, which is flanked by arched two-light windows that have hoodmoulds, nook shafts, and diamond glazing. The central section has three windows, with a blind thermal window treatment at the top. A porch gable rises through the sill, and the double doors are adorned with enriched arch-rings and nook-shafts, along with a traceried fanlight. Stepped triple windows illuminate the gallery stairs leading to the outer bays.
The flank elevations have five windows each, and there is a transverse hall range at the rear that continues in a similar style. The property is enclosed by good area railings with twin gates and gatepiers that are topped by lamp-standards.
The interior is said to feature a ribbed barrel-vault decorated with white clouds.
Local climate
Capel Tabernacl (Welsh Baptist Church) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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