Description

NAUNTON VILLAGE STREET
SP 1123
(s side)
8/73
Baptist Chapel and
- attached school house)

GV II

Non-conformist Chapel. Dated 1850 but looks earlier. Pre-archaeological Gothick
style. Coursed rubble, low-pitched slate roof with coped verges. 2--light Y-
tracery lancets to sides. Front (west) gable has 2 projecting gabled stair-
turrets and lower lean-to between with arched doorway. Ground falls sharply to
south allowing basement. Extends to east as school house in coursed and squared
rubble. 2 storeys, 2 windows, plain slightly chamfered opening with timber mul-
lion windows. Central uninscribed (date) panel. Interior probably as arranged
c.1850. 2 Tudor arched doorways at west end blocked. Blocked openings for school
children or choir above east doorways. Probably originally a plain C18 rectan-
gular structure, extended to its present form in 1850. Important position when
seen from Dale Street and south.

Listing NGR: SP1141023421

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26448487

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