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Congregational Chapel and attached stone wall along road to north east

A Grade II Listed Building in Beaminster, Dorset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.8077 / 50°48'27"N

Longitude: -2.7371 / 2°44'13"W

OS Eastings: 348160

OS Northings: 101163

OS Grid: ST481011

Mapcode National: GBR MJ.YJC7

Mapcode Global: FRA 564Y.ZCQ

Plus Code: 9C2VR757+35

Entry Name: Congregational Chapel and attached stone wall along road to north east

Listing Date: 11 November 1966

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1290323

English Heritage Legacy ID: 395301

ID on this website: 101290323

Location: Beaminster, Dorset, DT8

County: Dorset

Civil Parish: Beaminster

Built-Up Area: Beaminster

Traditional County: Dorset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset

Church of England Parish: Beaminster St Mary of the Annunciation

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

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ST 4701/4801
7/170

BEAMINSTER
WHITCOMBE ROAD (NORTH SIDE)
Congregational Chapel and attached stone wall along road to north east

11.11.66

GV
II
Congregational Chapel. Built 1749 enlarged 1825. (Tablet on south wall). Lias ashlar walls, pyramidal tile roof with ball-finial at apex. One tall storey. Two bays, tall three-light round-headed windows with keystones. Square section mullions with tracery-pattern in the head. Two oculus-windows at left and right, high, with dressed stone architraves. Two doors at left and right ends, wood, two-leaf with fanlights over. Dressed stone architraves with projecting dropped keys.

Interior: galleries removed. Tablet on north wall, to James Daniel, Gent. 1711, mentions his escape after Sedgemoor and the Daniel Burial Ground at Knowle Farm. Plaque to Richard Hine 1860-1939. Reeded elliptical doorcases.

Attached coursed lias stone wall, 25 yards east along road, with stone coping. Early C18. One later doorway inserted.

Listing NGR: ST4816201164

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