Braughing Chapel (Independent Free Church) is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1976. Chapel.
Braughing Chapel (Independent Free Church)
- WRENN ID
- winding-string-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 July 1976
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Braughing village TL 3925 BRAUGHING FLEECE LANE (north side)
9/20 Braughing Chapel (Indpt. Free Church) 7.7.76
GV II
Chapel. Reputedly John Bunyan's preaching barn from Hitchin, moved to Datchett and re-erected on present site 1762, by Samuel Copperwheat a Free Church preacher. Plastered timber framing. Steep tiled roof with gabled ends. Four bays between tie beams, having the original principal rafters, purlins and collars. It is not certain that the building was erected solely as a chapel, it had two galleries, east and west, with the pulpit on the north side, only the gallery at the west end remains. The interior was stripped and re-arranged in the C19. The exterior is very plain. Plastered walls. C19 and C20 windows high in walls. C20 gabled south porch and C20 vestry. (Hertfordshire Countryside Jan 1979 p 16).
Listing NGR: TL3943225263
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