Description

TL 22 NE WALKERN HIGH STREET
(east side)

1/4 Walkern Free Church
(United Reformed
- Methodist)

GV II

Chapel. 1811, as a Congregational chapel (VCH (1912) 158).
Stucco on brick, lined as ashlar. Slate roofs. Ogee cusped
wooden bargeboards to main roof. A small rectangular chapel
orientated E-W, set back some distance from the road, surrounded
by its graveyard. Entrance in the middle of the W end. Lower
gabled vestry with external gable chimney projects at SE, entered
from W. The W front has a round-headed cast-iron framed window
with small panes set above the central rectangular recessed
entrance. Fluted surround to door with lozenge-decorated corner
blocks, and small rectangular fanlight between shaped brackets
supporting the flat hood. Panelled door renewed. Pointed large
cast iron windows with margin lights and small panes, one in each
side and 2 at E end framing the pine pulpit-back with similar
pointed arch. Pine dado and bench seating in simple interior.
Vestry has a 4-panel flush-beaded door and a smaller cast iron
pointed window to the right, with lattice panes and margin
lights. A little-changed early C19 village chapel.

Listing NGR: TL2905126572

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26594781

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]