Baptist Chapel And Attached Cottage

WORTHEN C.P. LORDSHILL SJ 30 SE

6/137 Baptist Chapel and - attached cottage

• II

Baptist chapel and attached cottage. Dated 1833, re-built 1873 with later alterations. Stucco with plain tile roof. Chapel: gable front; fixed-light round-headed windows to either side of gabled porch with inner 6-panel double doors and one window above to centre; 2 similar windows to 'ritual' east end. Datestone with inscription 'Erected/AD 1833/Rebuilt/1873' to front with pointed finial above to gable. Cottage: probably c.1873; one storey and attic, toothed eaves cornice; plate- glass sashes to left and right of central entrance and to gabled half dormers directly above; 4-panel door with bracketed lean-to hood; rendered internal end stack to right. Interior: majority of fittings late C19; benches, wainscot panelling and reader's desk all of this date but 2 cast-iron columns supporting west gallery may be original. Round- arched panel behind desk supported by 2 pairs of consoles has the painted words "Serve the Lord with Gladness"; circular moulded panels to roof. 4-panel door with rectangular overlight in left wall leads to lean- to vestry. The cottage was formerly the manse and the chapel is described in the work of Mary Webb, the Shropshire novelist. Its re-building dates to the period of extensive improvements at the neighbouring Snailbeach Lead Mine.

Listing NGR: SJ3803702072