Description

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5191
SY 4692 1/112
28.11.50

SOUTH STREET
(East Side)
Bridport Arts Centre
[formerly listed as
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel]

GV
II

Designed 1838 (Foundation stone laid 21st March: opened 28th November). Architect:
James Wilson FSA, of Belmont, Bath. Builders; Charles and Joseph Galpin
of Bridport. Former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. Stucco. Hipped slate roof.
4 giant Doric pilasters taking full entablature and pediment. 2 giant fluted
Ionic 3/4 columns in antis flanking central bay. 3 round-arched sashes with
glazing bars and moulded surrounds on 1st floor. 2 segment-headed blind panels
on ground floor with shouldered moulded surrounds. Double doors with 2 moulded
panels and shouldered moulded surround, up flight of 5 steps. "Wesleyan Methodist
Chapel" in contemporary lettering on frieze.
Interior. Moulded cornice. Shallow segmental barrel vault. Galleries (added
in 1855) round 3 sides on 7 iron columns; panelled parapet with anthemia ornament,
some fluted muntins with scrolled consoles, modillion cornice. Chancel opening
through arch with panelled Composite pilasters, moulded voussoirs and fluted
keystone. Below this is a remarkable wooden preaching gallery approached by
1 curved flight of steps on each side: arcuated balustrade, scroll shaped
newels with dentilled tops. Gallery taken on 3 arches (2 round, 1 segmental),
with panelled square columns, foliate mediaeval capitals, moulded voussoirs,
fluted keystones; moulded cornice above, parapet with arcade of square columns
taking round arches with moulded voussoirs and imposts, keystones and modillioned
cornice.

Nos 3 to 9 (odd), the Bridport Arts Centre, annexe to the Bridport Arts Centre.
Nos 11 to 17 (odd) and 17B and 17A form a group with the Greyhound Hotel,
East Street.

Listing NGR: SY4662492880

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26521741

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