Whitfield Tabernacle

The Tabernacle was originally built in 1741 as a Methodist (Calvinist) meeting house under instructions from George Whitefield and supervised by John Cennick. It later became a Congregational Church.

As the congregation grew in numbers, they chose to build a larger church nearby (designed by Henry Masters and built in 1851) and the Tabernacle became a meeting hall. It returned to being used as a United Reformed Church until 1992, when the congregation merged with the Kingswood Moravian church and the Tabernacle was left empty.

The building was vandalised and damaged by fire in 2000 and was left as a ruin. It has been Historic England Grade 1 listed and placed on the Heritage at Risk register.

The building is now owned by the Whitfield Tabernacle Trust, a charitable trust set up in 2017. With funding mainly from the West of England Combined Authority and Historic England the roof was reinstated and windows installed in 2023. A second phase of restoration was begun in 2025 and it is hoped the building will be reopened in late 2026 as a performance space and café, including an educational display showing the heritage of the building and its significance in the Evangelical Revival.