Tabernacle Welsh Baptist Chapel, Brecon Road CF47 8LS

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Tabernacle Welsh Baptist Chapel,
Brecon Road

CF47 8LS

Mixture of ornate, classical and Romanesque. Built in 1835, modified, altered or rebuilt 1842 and 1897, still in use.

The plaque reads:

Tabernacle Chapel 1897 Post classical style, this building was designed by architect George Morgan and was erected at a cost of £1,650 and replaced an earlier chapel in Cae Brynant set up in 1837 by dissatisfied Welsh Baptists.

Grade II Listed

History
Dated 1896. Designed by George Morgan, architect of Carmarthen. Cost £4,650. Mixed Romanesque and classical style.

Description
Exterior
Wide gabled front with snecked facings, pale freestone dressings, slate roof behind kneelered parapet with ball finial. Triple ventilators in banded frame over large first-floor arch flanked by arched two-light windows; hoodmoulds, nook shafts, diamond glazing. 3-window centre with blind thermal window treatment to head, porch gable rises through sill; enriched arch-rings and nook-shafts to double doors with traceried fanlight. Stepped triple windows light gallery stairs to outer bays.

5-window flank elevations and transverse hall range uphill to rear in similar style. Good area railings with twin gates and gatepiers topped by lamp-standards.

Interior
Interior said to have ribbed barrel-vault with white clouds.