Capel Tabernacl (Congregationalist), Dolgellau, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7421 / 52°44'31"N

Longitude: -3.8873 / 3°53'14"W

OS Eastings: 272686

OS Northings: 317720

OS Grid: SH726177

Mapcode National: GBR 90.0CK4

Mapcode Global: WH56P.8B4P

Plus Code: 9C4RP4R7+R3

Entry Name: Capel Tabernacl (Congregationalist)

Listing Date: 19 June 1990

Last Amended: 19 June 1990

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4996

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: Capel Tabernacl (Congregationalist) Heol-Y-Capel

ID on this website: 300004996

Location: Set back from the street line behind a railed forecourt just in from Cader Road.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Dolgellau

Built-Up Area: Dolgellau

Traditional County: Merionethshire

Tagged with: Chapel

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History

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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.

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Capel Tabernacl (Congregationalist)

A Grade II Listed Building in Dolgellau, Gwynedd