Southfield Methodist Church And Chapel House

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SX8861 CECIL ROAD 1947-1/4/90 (East side) 10/01/75 Southfield Methodist Church and Chapel House (Formerly Listed as: CECIL ROAD Bible Christian Chapel and Chapel House)

GV II

Independent chapel of 1823 and caretaker's house of c1830s. Bible Christian chapel since 1884, alterations of 1901 (Pevsner). MATERIALS: Local red breccia rubble, front elevation and chapel house rendered. Slate roofs, chapel roof hipped at ends with false gable to front. PLAN: Rectangular plan to 2-bay chapel, entrance front to Southfield Road, end backing on to Colley End Road. Double-depth chapel house adjoins at NE side and projects to the front. EXTERIOR: 3-bay front elevation to chapel with 1901 narthex across front. Deep eaves and verges on paired brackets. Chapel in Gothic style has central 3-light window with intersecting tracery flanked by taller similar windows, all with plain stuccoed bands round the heads of the windows. Band of incised lettering 'Bible Christian Chapel' over centre window. Narthex has very shallow central porch with tall gable with cross finial, arched doorway with hoodmould and plank door. Porch flanked by trefoil-headed one-light timber windows with hoodmoulds. Outer bays of narthex are gabled with bargeboards and roundel windows with plain proud architraves. Left return and rear wall of chapel has 2 tall arched windows with Y tracery. Chapel House is 3 storeys with a 2-window front. Deep eaves on paired moulded brackets. Recessed C20 front door to right, similar front door to right return. Windows glazed with C20 small-pane sashes including a tripartite sash on the ground floor of the front elevation. INTERIOR: Plain ceiling with round ventilation grilles. Brattished timber frontal to preaching gallery has blind arches with keyblocks. C19 benches with shaped ends. C19 white marble wall monuments, the earliest dating from c1849. HISTORY: Noted by Pevsner as the oldest Nonconformist chapel in the area. (Buildings of England: Cherry B and Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: 839).

Listing NGR: SX8849761038