Description

LONGBRIDGE DEVERILL CROCKERTON GREEN
ST 84 SE
(east side)
3/185 Baptist Chapel and
attached shop
11.9.68

GV II

Particular Baptist chapel and former school room, now shop
premises. Early C18. Coursed rubble stone, tiled roof, brick
stack to right. Four-windowed chapel, 1-windowed schoolroom.
Chapel has three tall round-arched leaded windows to left, planked
door to right with round-arched leaded window over, lighting
gallery. Two storey schoolroom has 6-panelled door with flat
wooden hood and 16-pane flush sash to right, round-arched fixed
window to first floor, chamfered rusticated quoins to chapel and
schoolroom. Moulded stone eaves cornice. Rear of chapel has three
square-headed leaded windows to right, 2-light casement to ground
and first floor of gallery end to left, schoolroom to left has 16-
pane sash to both floors.
Interior of chapel has C19 south gallery on cast-iron composite
columns, pine gallery balustrade, C19 pews with some reused C18
panelling. C18 octagonal pulpit with fielded panelling. Marble
tablets on north wall to John Clark died 1803, signed Biggs of
Bath, and to Joseph Thresher, died 1842, both ministers of this
chapel. Chapel founded in 1660s and associated with the Adlam
family of Bull Mill (q.v.) Ceased to be used for worship early
1980s. (B. Watkin, Crockerton, 1983.)

Listing NGR: ST8675143192

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26587926

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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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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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability