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SS826000 HIGH STREET 672-1/5/115 (North side) No.98 Congregational Chapel and the Manse

GV II

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. 5-bay chapel to right,set back from the manse to the left. Exterior: 3-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 3 by pilasters with a platband and moulded cornice above, framing keyed round-headed arches on brackets to central 2-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 spoke glazing bars. The 5-bay right return has recesses with brick brick qouins to each bay: ground floor windows 12-pane sashes; first floor windows round-headed with glazing bars. The left return probably similar but largely obscured by the manse. The manse is in a matching but The manse is in a matching but plainer style. 2 storeys. Gabled roof, end on to the forecourt. Axial stack and front left corner stack. Asymmetrical 2-bay front with a moulded coping to the gable. Round-headed doorway to the right with a keystone and moulded stone architrave with pilasters with capitals and a 4-panel door with richly-moulded panels and a plain 2-pane fanlight. Windows all have moulded stone architraves with keystones and shouldered pilasters with capitals. Windows glazed with round-headed 4-pane sashes: one window to the ground floor, 2 to the first floor. The left return of the manse is Flemish bond brick with moulded brick corbels under the eaves and a cable-moulded brick stringcourse at first floor level. 12-pane first floor sash in the centre. The ground floor has a boarded door to the left with an overlight; a 3-pane fixed window alongside to the right and one first and one ground floor sash. Interior: Not inspected but probably of interest. The chapel replaced a 1757 meeting house in Broad Street (Pevsner). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner, N., & Cherry, B.,: Devon: London: P.297).

Listing NGR: SS8294200380

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas