Unitarian Chapel

TL 26 SE FRAMLINGHAM BRIDGE STREET

4/17 Unitarian Chapel (formerly 7.12.66 listed as Unitarian Meeting House) GV II*

A Unitarian meeting-house, formerly Presbyterian. Erected 1717. In red brick with dark headers; hipped, slate roof; brick band. 2 storeys. 3 cross windows to upper storey, and one similar window to the ground storey, centrally placed between 2 flush entrance-doors in plain surrounds. The interior has an original west gallery supported on Tuscan columns, with bolection-moulded panels divided by moulded flat pilasters. At the east end is a large pulpit with steps at each side, and a bench with a high boarded back and triangular pediment topped by a dove standing on a globe. The front has raised fielded panels and a row of miniature balusters. Late C19 benches. The windows have their original wrought-iron fittings. Above one window on the north side a painted wooden plaque, in the form of a flaming urn, in memory of Sarah Toms of Hadleigh, d.1809. Money for building the chapel was bequeathed under the will of William Mayhew, the 'faithful servant' of Thomas Mills, in 1713.

Listing NGR: TM2842363519