Interior of Tabernacl Welsh Baptist Chapel, Pontypridd (now Pontypridd Museum), showing the organ and pulpit

Description

Tabernacl Welsh Baptist Chapel was built in 1861, at a time when the town of Pontypridd was growing in size and importance as the collieries of the Rhondda valleys were being opened up. In 1910 - the centenary of the arrival of the Baptist movement in the town - the chapel was extended, and the organ, ornate wood and plasterwork ceiling, and stained glass windows were added. A baptismal bath was also built under the pulpit. The organ was built in Huddersfield. The chapel closed as a place of worship in 1983, and Pontypridd Town Council converted it into the Pontypridd Historical and Cultural Centre, which opened in July 1986.