Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
22573
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/10/1999
Date of Amendment
29/10/1999
Name of Property
Tabernacle United Reformed Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Mumbles
Town
Swansea
Locality
Oystermouth
Easting
261382
Northing
188166
Street Side
S
Location
Located E of the junction between Newton Road and Chapel Street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built in 1870 as a Congregational Church (date on building).
Exterior
Geometrical style chapel of snecked, rock-faced stone and lighter stone dressings, with slate roof. The gabled entrance front, facing the road, is 3 bays, the outer bays being set-back lean-tos with diagonal buttresses and narrow cusped lancets. The central bay has double doorways placed within a gabled portal and under a pointed arch with the name and date of the building in engraved letters. The doorways have boarded doors, moulded jambs and arches. Above them and beneath the arch is a quatrefoil window. Above a string course are a pair of 2-light geometrical windows with a cusped round window above and a small narrow vent below the apex.
The 4-bay side walls have 2 tiers of paired lancets and a low clerestorey has triple cusped lights to each bay. Attached to the rear is a later vestry and school room comprising a lower projection and then a wide asymetrical gable with pointed windows and doorway, and under concrete tile roofs.
Interior
An entrance vestibule has doorways to the main chapel and gallery with panelled doors. The 3-sided raked gallery is carried on a full-height 4-bay arcade of wooden posts with arches and similar arches at right angles over the gallery. The gallery front has panels with diagonal boarding below open fret-cut arcading (and with an added steel hand rail). The 4-bay roof has arched braces to the principals, similar to the arcade. Behind the pulpit is an added recess projecting into the vestry which houses the organ below a 2-centred moulded arch. The pulpit has panels and openwork arcading and is flanked by steps with square moulded newels and balusters. Some windows have coloured abstract glazing by Glasslight Studios.
Reason for designation
Listed principally for the architectural interest of the interior, specifically its fine arcade and gallery.
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