Description

TL 3243 BASSINGBOURN-CUM-KNEESWORTH SOUTH END
(East Side)
20/74
19.1.83 United Reformed
Church

II

Chapel. 1790 with C19 additions and alterations. Timber-framed with
roughcast render and plain tiled roofs, gault brick and slated roof additions.
One galleried storey. Original building with double, hipped roof of three
'bays' extended with an apse to the east accommodating the vestry with organ
gallery above. Late C19 brick extension of one 'bay' to north with
symmetrical gabled entrance facade. Double doors and two side doors recessed
with band of pointed lights to three fanlights. Portico with four octagonal
piers. Three two-light gallery windows with leaded light and stuccoed drip
moulds; quatrefoil in apex and apex finial. Interior: Gallery on three sides
supported on wooden columns with 'W.W fecit 1802' on painted roundel on east
side. Marble tablet to Rev. Sam Bull, the first pastor of the church,
ordained 1791, died 1826, on south wall. Samuel Dodkin (d.1808) left money
for the upkeep of the chapel.

RCHM Report 1950
VCH Vol VIII p.28

Listing NGR: TL3333343732

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26456961

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