Description

TEMPLE GRAFTON

SP15SW VILLAGE STREET
1931-1/3/80 (South side (off))
02/08/72 Baptist Chapel

GV II

Baptist chapel. 1864 on site of Moravian chapel. Coursed
dressed blue lias with alternating narrow courses, and brick
outshut; steeply pitched old tile roof.
EXTERIOR: single storey; 3-window range with lean-to outshut
to left return. Gabled porch to right has round-headed
entrance with ovolo-moulded architrave to fanlight with radial
glazing bars over 4-flush-panel door; segmental-headed window
above, lighting gallery stair, has cambered arch with key
block over small-paned glazing.
Main elevation with 2 round-headed windows with plastered
sills and small-paned fixed glazing with opening panes.
Outshut to left has segmental-headed entrance with plank door.
Returns have high round-headed windows.
Rear has round-headed windows.
INTERIOR: roof ceiled over collars of 2 hammerbeam trusses
with stop-chamfered members; wainscoting; gallery has 2 timber
columns and stick balusters over fielded panels; dais has
turned balusters over fielded panelling and lamps on metal
columns. Porch has winding stone stair with stick balusters
over fielded panelling.
(Leaflet on chapel in District Council records: 1983-).

Listing NGR: SP1274254896

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662805

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)