Tabernacle Chapel
Morriston, Glamorgan
Welsh architect John Humphreys built what is said to be perhaps the most ambitious chapel in Wales in 1870, for the then huge sum of £18,000.
St Mary’s, Clydach offers one of the most imposing, and architecturally accomplished churches in South Wales. St Mary's church is a particularly elaborate early 20th century (1904-05) church, built in the Gothic style. The church was built as the population of Clydach grew with the success of its industries, notably tinplate. It was designed by E M Bruce Vaughan FRIBA of Sawnsea. Bruce Vaughan was an architect working across industrial South Wales in a free Gothic style, after the school of the nationally renowned architect G F Bodley. The church is of importance today because of the quality, inventiveness and consistency of its detailing and construction; its lofty scale; the quality of its stained glass; remarkable reredos, and other later additions; the fact that it is (to date) largely unaltered; and the strong and poignant record it holds for the community of Clydach.