Description

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SX 28 SW
4/77 (9/5) Chygrysys (formerly listed as
22/11/60 Methodist Sunday School)

GV II

Wesleyan chapel, later Sunday School, now converted to private house. 1795,
enlarged, altered, or rebuilt in 1836 (datestone). Stone rubble with granite
dressings. Slate roof with hipped end to front.
Plan: Overall rectangular plan. Originally with stables and store on ground floor
and meeting room above, approached by an external flight of steps on the front
elevation.
Exterior: Two storey elevation to road with central stone rubble and granite flight
of steps with iron balustrade, leading up to the entrance. The steps are set forward
and there is a plank door to the store below them.
C19 plank double doors to store and stable on left. The first floor has a central
entrance with probably C19 double doors, flanked by two horned probably C19 36-pane
sashes with some crown glass. The granite lintels above these windows have been
continued to form a continuous granite string band below the eaves. Directly above
the entrance is a carved relief of a bust of John Wesley dated 1836. This was
carved by the local sculptor Nevil Northey Burnard whose birth place is commemorated
by a plaque on the adjacent cottage (qv Penpont Mill).
Interior altered when converted to house in the late C20.
Stell, C. RCHM inventory of Methodist Chapels

Listing NGR: SX2239181223

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613418

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)