Description

SX 29 NE WHITSTONE WHITSTONE

1/10000 Former Bible Christian (Boot)Chapel and attached forecourt wall and gate piers

II

Small Non-conformist (Bible Christian) chapel. 1835. Cob walls with state hanging to road frontage; rag state hipped roof plus outshut at rear. Rectangular plan with presumed gallery at the ritual west end plus slightly later outshut to rear (side). Single storey. 2-window road front. 12-pane 2-light casement windows within round arches with boarded tympana. left-hand return is the entrance front with central doorway with planked door and there is a gallery window with glazing bars to 1st-floor left. Doorway to outshut on left. INTERIOR not inspected but unlikely to retain any fittings since its use as an outbuilding. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: slate stone rubble wall with square-on-plan gate-piers with rendered coping. One of the first Bible Christian chapels and of particular interest with its restrained simplicity and vernacular use of materials.

Listing NGR: SX2677497807

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666221

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)