Tabor United Reformed Church

This is a classical-style chapel built in 1876, situated at a right angle to an earlier chapel. The 1876 chapel presents an ambitious three-bay entrance front featuring a “Glorification Arch”. It is constructed from coursed Pennant sandstone with extensive pale freestone dressings, covered by a slate roof with projecting verges and a plinth. The entrance front has four Ionic pilasters on plinths, which support an entablature. Within the entablature is a central elliptical arch, topped by an oculus bearing scrolls with the inscriptions "Tabor" and "1876". Below the arch are a Venetian window with Italianate tracery, and two round-arched doorways with keystones and camber-headed doors, all set beneath a heavy entablature. Tall arched windows with Italianate tracery are located in the flanking bays. Two tall arched windows and an arched louvre in the gable are present at the rear. The two-storey side elevations have four windows facing east and two facing west, with plain stone dressings. The windows have arched heads on the upper level and cambered heads on the lower level. To the west, at a right angle, stands the earlier chapel, which is rendered over rubble stone. Its two-storey side elevations have two windows each. Round-arched windows are above camber-headed windows, predominantly with 20th-century glazing. The gabled west entrance features two round-arched windows and a central doorway with stone jambs and voussoirs.

The earlier chapel retains its interior from the mid-19th century, featuring a lobby with stairs leading to a U-plan gallery, complete with a panelled wooden frontal and a clock. Tiered, boarded wooden benches are arranged towards the rear. Classicising iron columns are present and wooden rails define the windows and stairs. At lower level, a panelled dado and wooden benches are located. Steps lead up to the pulpit; an arched recess is positioned to the right, and an arched doorway provides access to the later chapel to the left.

The 1876 chapel’s interior includes a lobby with stairs leading to a gallery. The ceiling is flat with a diamond-pattern rib design and an elaborate ceiling rose. An outer band of exposed diagonal boarding is also present. The U-plan gallery features a frontal of polished wood and pierced iron panels, painted to resemble oxidised bronze, along with fluted iron columns with floral capitals. The gallery contains panelled wooden seating, tiered, and an organ is situated at the entrance end. Opposite the gallery, at the north end and between two arched windows, is an arched recess with a keystone above a wooden bow-fronted pulpit, accessed by curved steps on either side. A panelled “set fawr” enclosure provides a background. There are three banks of pews.