Description

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 GOSDITCH STREET
578-1/4/213 (South West side)
14/06/48 Unitarian Chapel

GV II

Also known as: Gosditch Street Chapel.
Unitarian chapel, formerly Presbyterian, now disused.
Presbyterians on this site from late C17, present building
altered 1891 and now appears entirely late C19. Cement render
with ashlar dressings; concrete tile hipped roof; stone and
rendered stacks to left slope.
Single-storey with clerestory to left, internal gallery to
right; 5-window range. Five C19 two-light chamfered stone
mullion windows with leaded lights with coloured glass at
first floor level, 3 similar windows to ground floor. Pair of
C19 four-panel doors, now faced with plywood, with leaded
overlight with coloured glass in round-headed opening with
moulded stone surround with flanking pilasters and keystone
bearing false date 1648 with dripstone over. Single-storey
brick lean-to boiler house to left side.
Rear elevation has three 2-light chamfered stone
mullion-and-transom windows with round-headed lights and one
similar window with head now cut off by gallery, two 2-light
chamfered stone mullion windows at first floor level.
INTERIOR has late C19 staircase to former west gallery with
bolection-moulded panelled front, now enclosed by boarding
above and below to form 2 rooms behind. Late C19 stained
softwood fittings include pews and dado-height panelling,
pulpit to end end with C19 panelling behind approached by
winder steps to right. Clock formerly attached to front of
gallery and other furniture and fittings now in care of
Corinium Museum.
(Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-houses: Stell C:
Gloucestershire: RCHM: 1986-: P.79).

Listing NGR: SP0221602156

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569496

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)