Bicester Snooker Club

BICESTER CHAPEL STREET SP5822S (East side) 3/13 Bicester Snooker Club 20/03/70 (Formerly listed as Congregational Church, and Registrar's Office, 0xfordshire County Council) GV II

Congregational chapel, now club. 1728, altered and extended c.1840 and 1873; converted late C20. Limestone rubble and chequer brick with some ashlar dressings; Welsh-slate roofs. Central block with added lower wings flanking a forecourt. 5-window brick front of main range, with blue headers, rises from a rubble plinth and has tall round-arched windows with C19 architraves and wooden tracery; left bay has been altered to form a rose window above an added pedimented porch, with a round-arched doorway surrounded by rusticated stone blocks. Hipped roof has boxed eaves which break in the centre below a small triangular pediment; only the pediment retains the deep plaster cove. Low wings have yellow headers, and the arched windows in their front gable walls have wooden "Gothic" tracery; right wing has a gable parapet; left wing returns beside main block with sash windows. Sides and rear of main block are in rubble and there are further arched and rose windows. Interior: upper room retains boarded ceiling of chapeI with a deep plaster cove. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.18; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.454).

Listing NGR: SP5848722287