Description

SW 73 SW WENDRON CARNKIE

5/380 Old Bible Christian Chapel,
- including adjoining former trap-
house, courtyard walls

GV II

Bible Christian Chapel, including adjoining former trap-house, earth-closets,
courtyard walls, gate-piers and gate, now a Sunday schoolroom. Datestone 1857.
Dressed roughly coursed granite rubble with granite dressings, otherwise rubble or
painted rubble. Chapel has asbestos slate roof with pedimented gable at the front
and chimney over the rear gable. Trap-house and one earth-closet have scantle slate
roofs; there is a brick chimney over the front end of the trap-house and cast-iron
ogee-section gutters.
Plan: Small rectangular-on-plan aisle-less chapel with rectangular-on-plan trap-
house adjoining its front left-hand corner and earth closets by the front left-hand
corner of the trap-house. 2-window chapel has original doors and windows: Pair of 2
panel doors in round-head opening with plain fanlight; vermiculated rusticated
voussoirs to door arch; 12-pane sashes at first floor (formerly gallery) level and
pediment with moulded cornices, and with name and date plaque; over.
Side walls have square-headed window openings with C20 windows except for round-
headed window with original hornless sash with traceried head towards rear of left-
hand side. Trap-house has right-hand wall at front with C19 6-pane horned sash on
the left and partly blocked original wide doorway on the right.
Interior: Not inspected but said to have no original fittings.
Rubble courtyard wall adjoining right-hand front corner of chapel has dressed granite
copings; gateway with pyramidally-headed dressed granite monolithic piers and
original wrought-iron gate with fleurs-de-lys and scrolled detail.

Listing NGR: SW7149034236

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26434837

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)