Stoke Row Independent Chapel

SU68SE 565/6/10003 01-NOV-00

STOKE ROW Stoke Row Independent Chapel

GV II

Independent chapel. Dated 1815; extended 1884 and 1956. Flemish bond red brick on flint footings. Slate hipped roof with overhanging eaves; Sunday school and porch gable-ended with shaped bargeboards. PLAN: Rectangular on plan single cell auditorium; in late C19 porch added to south front and in 1884 a Sunday school was built at the rear [N]; in 1956 a kitchen and lavatory extension was built on the north side of the Sunday school. EXTERIOR: Single storey. South front has 6-pane window to left and right and round arch window above at centre with glazing bars and with rubbed brick arches; central doorway with later C19 brick porch with shaped bargeboards to gable and panelled door. East and west sides each have two large round arch sash windows with glazing bars and rubbed brick arches; between the windows on each side is a brick inscribed 'W.G. 1815'. North end of auditorium has two round arch windows with glazing bars and rubbed brick arches at high level above the single storey Sunday school addition, which has shaped bargeboards to gable ends and large 3-light late C20 windows. Brick kitchen and lavatory extensin with flat roof adjoining north. INTERIOR: Late C19 benches. Dado in auditorium replaced in C20. Monument on east wall to John Olding Alanson, 1831. SOURCE: Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England [RCHME], p181.

Listing NGR: SU6841184029