Name: Tabor Chapel

Denomination: Welsh Congregational / United Reformed Church

Built: 1829
Rebuilt: 1856 and 1876

Note 1. Tabor Congregational Chapel was built in 1829, rebuilt in 1856 and rebuilt again in 1876. The 1876 chapel was designed by architect Thomas Thomas of Landore and built in the Classical style with a gable-entry plan, two storeys and a large arch in the facade. Tabor is now Grade 2 Listed as a good example of Thomas's work with the Glorification arch, unspoil interior and unusual ironwork. [Source: Coflein database (NPRN: 10475)]

Note 2. Style Italianate: sophisticated giant arch in pediment design. Perhaps Thomas Thomas's finest and most sophisticated 'great arch' in the pediment design, but has lost its pediment-top urns and platforms. [Source: Thomas Thomas, 1817-88: the first national architect of Wales, by Stephen Hughes, in Archaeologica Cambrensis 152 (2003)]

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Photographs (above & below) © Copyright Robin Drayton, 23 January 2010, licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence

Note 3. Established in 1829 as Tabor Welsh Congregational Church, this large building dates from 1876.

It became part of the United Reformed Church in 1971, eventually closing in 2003. [Source: Robin Drayton on Geograph website]

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Photography by Google StreetView, May 2009

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Photography by Steve Veysey, 6 January 2006, with Fuji FinePix 6900 Zoom digital camera