Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7366 CHAPEL STREET
1011-1/6/58 (North side)
06/01/83 Methodist & United Reformed Church
and railings and gate piers to east
(Formerly Listed as:
CHAPEL STREET
Methodist Chapel)

GV II

Methodist and United Reformed church. c1830s. Local grey
limestone rubble, stuccoed and blocked out but not
colourwashed; hipped natural slate roof. A second block,
possibly a meeting room, is mostly rendered and colourwashed
with a hipped natural slate roof and lead rolls.
Plan: rectangular plan chapel, built on a site that slopes
down to the rear. This allows access to the chapel from Chapel
Street with steps from the street down to a school below the
chapel with further access to the school from the right
return. A low-roofed, single-storey rectangular meeting room
is attached to the front right corner of the chapel and broken
forward from its front elevation - this may be contemporary
with the chapel.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Galleried chapel with schoolroom below: 2
tiers of windows to the chapel, schoolroom has tier of windows
visible on returns. Symmetrical 3-bay front to chapel, the
centre bay broken forward. Plinth with moulded cornice. Left
and right clasping pilasters with moulded capitals; front has
entablature including projecting cornice and parapet rising as
a shallow gable over the centre bay. Central, wide, open porch
with Tuscan columns, the sides infilled and partly glazed.
Porch has entablature including projecting cornice and a
parapet rising as a shallow gable in the centre. Paired c1860s
doors, each with 2 vertical panels; plain overlight. Ground
floor has two 3 over 6-pane early C19 hornless sashes, upper
tier of 3 similar 12-pane sashes.
To right of the chapel, steps lead down to a plain vertical
plank door giving access to the schoolroom. To the right,
broken forward, a 3-bay square-on-plan meeting room has a
blind front elevation with blind arcading with pilasters with
moulded capitals and bases. Right return of meeting room
similar, rear elevation has 2 probably early C19 12-pane
hornless sashes and 2 C20 basement timber windows with brick
surrounds. The right return of the chapel block is 4 bays with
early C19 hornless 12-pane sashes lighting the chapel and
gallery and 2 segmental-headed 4 over 8-pane sashes to the
schoolroom on the ground floor. 2-leaf plank door to
schoolroom with 4-pane overlight. Moulded cornice at gallery
floor level extends round rear elevation of meeting room
block, suggesting contemporary date. Left return of chapel
preserves early C19 12-pane sashes.
INTERIOR: not seen in detail. Paired stairs to gallery from
internal porch have stick balusters. Said to be galleried on 3
sides supported on fluted columns (1983 list description).
Subsidiary features: right return has small area in front,
bounded by C19 cast-iron railings with spear finials and
granite monolithic gate piers with plain pyramidal caps.

Listing NGR: SX7372366149

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504112

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)