Peculiar People'S Chapel

This is a small, simple brick chapel dating to 1877, built for the Peculiar People, a religious sect founded as a grass roots revivalist movement in the 1850s. It is the first chapel built by the sect, and one of only two known to survive intact. The chapel is constructed of red brick with gault brick dressings, and has a grey slate roof. It is a single-storeyed building with lugged quoins, two Gothic windows, and a central door. A gault band runs to the gable coping. The windows have glazing bars and centre mullions creating Gothic heads. The double vertically boarded doors are fitted with ornamental strap hinges, an escutcheon plate, and a handle. Matching windows are present to the returns, separated by pilasters. The sect gained respect for their agricultural and social reforms, however, their belief in natural healing caused conflict when treatments such as smallpox vaccination became common.