Cordys Close

Chapel, dating to the late 18th century, now a private house. The front is granite ashlar with dressed granite detailing, while the rest of the building is constructed from dressed, coursed sedimentary stone. The roof is hipped, covered in scantle slate, with a parapet to the front and a polygonal roof over a canted rostrum or alter projection to the rear.

The building originally comprised a single cell aisless plan, now subdivided. It features an entrance in the middle of the front (south) wall and a canted projection to the middle of the rear wall. The design presents a curious mixture of Gothic and classical styles.

It is a single-storey building, symmetrical with three bays to the south front. It includes a plinth, granite ashlar coursed into weathered diagonal corner buttresses, bays punctuated by fluted consoles under a Gothic style cornice, and four obelisk pinnacles as finials over a blind parapet with cross bracing and quatrefoils. A central doorway has an original 6-panel door with trefoil-headed upper and lower panels and quatrefoils to the middle panels. There is a moulded 2-centred arched doorway with an original fanlight featuring intersecting glazing bars. An eroded inscription is visible within the tympanum of the doorway; the jambs have moulded bases and are broken forward. The transom, with lozenge and diamond recesses, continues as an impost band. Consoles support a stepped and raised segmental cornice resembling an open pediment. Flanking window openings have moulded architraves and 2-centred arches with original hornless sashes and intersecting glazing bars to the tympana. Four similar windows are on the rear, all with much original crown glass.

The interior was remodelled during the Second World War with the insertion of partitions and an attic floor. However, niches survive on the east and west walls, and a fine ceiling cornice, in a Gothic style, remains in the attic.

This is a very fine and complete 18th century chapel, notable for its unusual combination of Gothic and classical features.