Fetter Lane Congregational Chapel

TQ 38 NE LANGTHORNE ROAD Leyton, Ell 2/42 (south side)

• Fetter Lane Congregational Chapel

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Church and former Sunday school. Dated 1899. By P Morley Horder. Roughcast. Stone dressings. Steeply pitched slate roof to eaves. Corner site. Galleried chapel to upper 2 storeys with former schoolroom below. Six paired bays. Arts and Crafts manner. Gabled west end with flush mullioned Serlian window to gable and central part of facade breaking forward slightly. Entrance to right. 3-light mullioned windows to first floor. Returns to right and left with prominent battered buttresses between bays, linked to form segmental reveals around upper windows. Windows segmental headed to ground floor, square above; mullioned, in timber to ground floor, in stone above. Small panes, leaded lights. Projecting 3-storey north porch with arched entrance. Interior with cast iron columns supporting galleries to north, west and south. Short chancel with Serlian motif forming chancel arch. Central pulpit in ornate late C17 style; panelling to chancel. Nave roof comprising segmental barrel vault. Design of church interior said to recall the original Fetter Lane Chapel of 1660.

Listing NGR: TQ3857186063