The Dissenters Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1969. A C19 Chapel.
The Dissenters Chapel
- WRENN ID
- old-gargoyle-spindle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1969
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 2382 SE HARROW ROAD W10 249/80/140 KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY
15-APR-1969 The Dissenters' Chapel
(Formerly Listed as: HARROW ROAD W10 KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY Non Conformist Mortuary Chapel)
II
Dissenters' Chapel and catacombs. 1831-34. By John Griffith, Surveyor to the General Cemetery Company. Portland stone, rendered brick walls. Ionic tetrastyle portico with pediment, flanked by curving three-bay wings with paired pilasters to front and twin Ionic columns in antis to ends; memorial tablets on walls of wings. Interior: east wall articulated with pilasters; pine reading desk and pews. Modern single-storey extension to rear of north wing. Catacombs (partly sealed) below the chapel. History: the first purpose-built Nonconformist funerary chapel in a public cemetery. The wings were demolished in the early 1970s and reinstated in 1995-97 by English Heritage: see The Architects' Journal 9th April 1998,40-41. Bibliography 6478 Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England (English Heritage), Part 17 Greater London
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