Providence Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1967. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.

Providence Chapel

WRENN ID
grim-plaster-vermeil
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Country
England
Date first listed
9 June 1967
Type
Chapel
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Providence Chapel is a Presbyterian chapel built in 1795, with additional construction in 1803, 1808, 1818, and 1828, and late 19th century alterations. The chapel is timber-framed and weatherboarded, featuring slate roofs that are hidden by a front parapet. The front has weatherboarding on the first floor with masonry grooving on wooden supports, one of which has a Doric capital, while the others have been renewed or altered. The first floor has a polygonal front with seven faces, where the central five feature tall round-headed sash windows with glazing bars in open boxes, although the center window is false. The ground floor at the rear shows evidence of two different types of brickwork.

Inside, there are staircases to the chapel located against the westernmost bay of the polygonal front and against the east wall, which leads to the gallery. The interior includes a baptistery under the polygonal front in the center of the floor in front of the pulpit, dating from 1914, and vestries on the ground floor. The chapel has a flat plaster ceiling with ceiling beams that show stages of enlargement. The south and west galleries have reeded edges to panels separated by reeded pilasters, all supported on columns that are now marbled. The pulpit has a five-sided front with applied reeded mouldings to the panels, supported by two marbled fluted columns. The seating, dating from the early 19th century, consists of benches with backs that were filled in later.

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