| Summary: | Congregational Chapel and adjoining manse. 1865 (Pevsner). Front elevations of snecked grey limestone with Ham Hill dressings; limestone rubble and brick to other elevations of chapel; return of manse brick. Slate roofs; stacks to manse with brick shafts. Baroque style. Five-bay chapel to right, set back from the manse to the left.
Exterior: Three-bay front has Ionic pilasters to stone entablature and pedimented gable broken by semi-circular arch to central bay. Central ground-floor bay is divided into three by pilasters with a platband and moulded cornice above, framing keyed round-headed arches on brackets to central two-leaf door flanked by blind doorways having timber panels with round-headed grooved moulding. Round-headed fixed window with spoke glazing bars above the door with a moulded eared shouldered architrave with a keystone. To left and right of the centre bay, 12-pane sashes. Above the sashes round-headed gallery windows have moulded stone architraves with keyblocks to the heads and are glazed with round-headed sashes with spole glazing bars. The five-bay right return has recesses with brick quoins to each bay: ground flloor windows 12 pane sashes; first floor windows round-headed with glazing bars. The left return probably similar but largely obscured by the manse (PRN 72170)..
Interior: Not inspected but probably of interest.
The chapel replaced a 1757 meeting house in Broad Street (Pevsner). |
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