United Reformed Church And Memorial Stone Beside North Wall

TL 4245 FOWLMERE CHAPEL LANE (South Side) 18/102 United Reformed Church and Memorial stone beside north wall. GV II Chapel. c.1780, apse at east end 1870, bell tower and clock 1881, restoration 1878. Timber-framed with rough cast render, C19 gault brick; C20 ridge-tiled hipped and gabled roofs. Two storey chapel with single storey school room to west and bell tower rising above two storeys to south-west corner. Chapel with square plan, polygonal apse and symmetrical west front with gabled projection flanked by lean-to open porches; gault brick quoins. Two storey central window, two gallery windows (and side elevation windows) with round headed arches and original leaded lights. Diagonal boarded doors to left and right hand with patterned iron hinges shaped to round arches. School room with pierced gable bargeboards and drop finial, round apex window and two casement windows in cambered brick arches. Bell tower with panelled brick walls, clock in north face and louvred belfry lights. Interior: Gallery on three sides with panelled front supported on cast iron columns. Organ C19 by Hen Jones, London SW. Memorial stone, limestone slab inscribed to the memory of Rev. Wm Merchand d.1810 and Mary his wife. Kellys' Directories for Cambridgeshire R.C.H.M. Report 1949 V.C.H. Vol. VI

Listing NGR: TL4214945572