Bardon Park Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 June 1997. Chapel.
Bardon Park Chapel
- WRENN ID
- salt-corbel-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1997
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bardon Park Chapel is a United Reform Chapel built around 1694, with alterations made around 1830, a remodel in 1877, and further changes around 1900. The building is constructed from local rubble stone, partly rendered, with red brick and ashlar dressings. It features stone slate roofs and an ashlar-coped gable with a brick dentilated eaves band.
The chapel has two storeys. The south front includes a central doorway with double plank doors and a round-headed ashlar lintel, which has an incised ashlar tympanum inscribed with "BARDON CHAPEL 1877." Flanking the doorway are single 2-light windows with wooden plate tracery, double chamfered cills, and incised ashlar lintels. Above these, there are three round-headed 2-light windows, also with wooden plate tracery and carved tympani featuring foliate decoration, linked by a chamfered cill and double impost band. The stepped gable is adorned with ashlar kneelers and a sexfoil roundel at the apex, topped with an iron finial.
The west front has a central 2-light window flanked by single light windows with wooden plate tracery, and a similar arrangement is found above. The east front mirrors the fenestration of the west front. The north front features two tall 2-light round-headed windows with plate tracery in the lower lights.
Inside, the chapel boasts a late 17th-century wooden octagonal pulpit with raised and fielded panels and fluted Doric pilasters. There is a late 19th-century wooden reading desk and pews, along with a wooden panel-fronted gallery on three sides, supported by slender iron columns dating to around 1900. Beneath the rear central pew is the stump of an original Doric column that once supported the original gallery. A wooden panel screen and doors at the rear date from around 1830. Slate monuments behind the pulpit commemorate former rectors, with the left monument dedicated to the Rev Jeremiah Dethick, who died in 1796, and the right to the Rev Thomas Willis Paterson, who died in 1812. The roof features a wooden structure from 1877, with surviving original late 17th-century roof trusses below.
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