Description

TF 2669 HORNCASTLE QUEEN STREET
(east side)

7/83A Congretional
Chapel and
17.10.86 attached Sunday
School

G.V. II

Congregational chapel and attached Sunday School. 1821, 1874.
C20. Red brick, limestone ashlar dressings, some stock brick.
Hipped concrete tile roof, double ridge slate roofs. Chapel of
1821 to north. 2 storey, 3 bay north front with central doorway
with inner double plank doors with ornate traceried overlight
above. Ashlar plaque above, inscribed: 'Independent Chapel'.
Single glazing bar sashes flank doorway. 3 glazing bar sashes
above. All the windows with segmental heads. 2 storey, 3 bay
west side with blind opening to left and 2 blocked openings to
right. Blind opening above to left, with 2 blocked openings to
right; all with segmental heads. Sunday School of 1874 set back
to right with 2 storey, 3 bay west front with ashlar first floor
band inscribed: 'Rebuilt 1874'; and stock brick quoins to south
corner. Central doorway with semi-circular ashlar dressed head
with raised keystone, plain fanlight and double plank doors.
Plaque above inscribed: 'Independent Sunday School, 1825'.
Doorway flanked by single windows with 3 windows above, all with
ashlar dressed semi-circular heads, raised keystones and plain
sashes with margin lights 2 storey, 5 bay south front with
doorway to left with concrete lintel and plank door. 4 plain
sashes to right with 4 plain sashes above, all with segmental
heads and margin lights. In each of the 2 gables of the double
ridge roof is a single, ashlar dressed keyed oculus. Chapel
interior with gallery of 1821 intact with fielded panelled front,
slender supporting iron columns and 2 delicate staircases with
slender bannisters with wave panelling and moulded handrail.
Ceiling with central round panel with bold acanthus leaf
decoration. Tiered pine panelled pews upstairs with hinged doors
and raking bench ends. Pews below of 1874. 3 white marble
monuments on black marble fields, to: The Reverend John Pain,
died 1844; Jane Wood, died 1853 and Thomas Meredith, died 1858.

Listing NGR: TF2614069520

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26543698

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6