Description

The following building shall be added:-

HARTSHILL
COLESHILL ROAD, Chapel
SP39SW End(North side)
1728-0/5/10004 Chapel End Congregational
Church
II
Congregational Chapel. Dated 1840; Sunday school added 1853. English bond red brick
with a stuccoed front. Slate roof with gabled ends and brick dentil eaves cornice. PLAN:
Rectangular auditorium with entrance at the south front under the gallery. The gallery was
extended on the east and west sides in 1853 when a large Sunday school was built across the
north end. Classical style. EXTERIOR: Single storey. 3-bay south front with a large broken
pediment containing a roundel with a clock face and giant rusticated pilasters with paterae
on the capitals. Central round arch doorway with panelled double doors, wreath in
semi-circular fanlight, paterae in spandrels and shallow canopy on enriched consoles;
moulded round-headed panel above with painted inscription. Tall flanking windows with
similarly moulded round-headed architraves with moulded cills. 3 tall round-headed windows
on either side. All windows have later frames. Across the back the large 1853 2-storey
Sunday school with multi-pane windows with segmental arches and later outshut on north
side. INTERIOR: Gallery on three sides on thin iron posts, with panelled front; the side
galleries added in 1853 have balusters set in the panels. Panelled dado. Rostrum with Greek
key motif and tripartite panel above on north end wall with round arches, pilasters and
painted text. Flanking the panel two round arches at the ends of the side galleries give access
directly to the Sunday school. Benches with shaped ends and umbrella stands. SOURCE:
Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-houses in Central England, RCHME, [42], page 235.

Listing NGR: SP3246993380

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26553464

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