Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
4996
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/06/1990
Date of Amendment
19/06/1990
Name of Property
Capel Tabernacl (Congregationalist)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Dolgellau
Town
Locality
Easting
272686
Northing
317720
Street Side
Location
Set back from the street line behind a railed forecourt just in from Cader Road.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
l868.
Exterior
3 bay gabled front. Snecked masonry with freestone dressings and plinth, moderately pitched slate roof. Ironwork finial on stepped base to apex. Moulded cornice and eaves band to gable parapet rising from angular stepped corner piers. Pinnacles with ball finials removed. Advanced centre bay with arched recess having occulus over Tuscan tripartite round arched window at gallery level. Keystones. Corniced sill band over channelled freestone doorcase. Plain entablature, Tuscan pilasters, round arched doorway, moulded panelled doors.
Tall round arched 2 light windows to outer bays, keystones, bracketed sills.
Plain 5 window side elevations, round arches, modern glazing. Victorian sashes to schoolroom in basement.
Railed forecourt with gatepiers to centre.
Interior
Rectangular galleried interior. Plain ribbed ceiling with large central rose, moulded cornice. Raked gallery with curved panelled front on modillions. Good fluted cast iron columns, octagonal bases, acanthus capitals. Turned balusters and square newels to deacons' seats. Similar to swept staircases flanking canted pulpit with fretwork panels. Panelled organ case. Plain cast iron columns to schoolroom below.
Reason for designation
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