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WISBECH THE CRESCENT
TF 4609
6/32 Wesleyan Chapel
GV II

Former chapel, built 1803 and enlarged in 1835, part of the
planned circus of the Castle Estate built by Joseph Medworth
(b.1752, d.1827). Dark red brick with rusticated stone quoins;
rendered ground floor and plinth. Two storeys with gallery
band. Brick pedimented parapet with stone copings and three,
patterned iron finials. Central, three-light gallery window
with gauged red brick, round headed arches divided by stone
shafts, two flanking windows with similar arches all with margin
glazing bars. Pair of matching entrances with stone cornices
supported by console brackets; double, sunk-panelled doors. Two
segmental headed ground floor windows with fixed lights.
RCHM (C. Stell), Non-Conformist Chapels, p.25, 1976.
Craddock and Walker, History of Wisbech, p.278, p.392-3, 1849.
Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.267-8, 1898.
Colvin, p.386, 1954.
VCH Cambs, p.242.
G. Annis, A History of Wisbech Castle, 1977.
Watson, prints, History of Wisbech, 1827.

Listing NGR: TF4616009538

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26616497

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