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
4568
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/07/1989
Date of Amendment
28/07/1989
Name of Property
Tabernacle Baptist Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Pwllheli
Town
Locality
Pwllheli
Easting
237462
Northing
335145
Street Side
Location
Set back from the road behind grassed and railed forecourt; beside the former Town Hall midway along the street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built 1861. Gothic style chapel with window tracery derived from that of the medieval Decorated period. The composition is dominated by the unusually tall spire said to have been built by Michael King, a mason from Dublin.
Exterior
The front is of snecked rubble masonry, said to been largely built out of ballast unloaded from the ships at Penycae. Penmon stone dressings including quoins and cill band; Prince of Wales feathers to apex. Broad 3-window gable flanked by doorways; corbelled parapet and gable topped buttresses with setoffs. Curved sided triangle attic opening over tall 5-light window with large petal pattern oculus; cavetto moulded surround with stopped label. Cusped Y-tracery side windows; similar window also to octagonal tower base - this is over the main entrance with double boarded doors; similar entrance to right end. The school room is lit to the centre by an almost triangular window, also 5-light but with double cusping and quatrefoil oculus.
The spire rises from an octagonal drum base with blind Y-tracery windows and implied lucarnes; ball finial and weathervane to top. An attempt to balance this has been made by the use of a miniature version at the right hand corner of the gable. Further recessed doorway at extreme left end.
Y-tracery side windows. Lower rubble vestry chamber to rear wit chimney stack and boarded up tall Gothic window to gable end. Chamfered gate piers with Gothic panels to front; iron gates with simple overthrow and lamp.
Interior
Rectangular Gothic interior with gallery to front end only; cast iron fluted piers with foliage capitals and cusped uprights to gallery front with sweeps outwards at either end. The pews with tall finials are slight raked. Deep triangular brackets and arched braces to coved ceiling with ventilation rubs radiating from large foliage ornamented central rose - smaller roses to either end; much of the detail is painted ironwork. Gothic balustrading around platform and ‘set fawr’ with lamp standards. Inscription to tall arched recess on end wall. Slender cast iron columns to basement hall.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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