Grittleton Baptist Chapel

This Baptist chapel was built around 1720 and is constructed of rubble stone with ashlar dressings and a hipped roof covered in Bridgwater tiles. It is rectangular in plan. The west side has two tall windows with a dripcourse above, while the east side has four smaller cross-windows on the ground floor, a dripcourse above, and four two-light windows above. A segmental-headed doorway with a keystone and a short moulded cornice is on the south end. A cornerstone on the south east corner is scratched with the dates 1722 and possibly 1705. The chapel’s exterior suggests galleries on the east side and a central pulpit on the west wall. The interior now has galleries at the north and south ends; the southern gallery, likely from the 18th century, has two turned posts and a fielded panelled front. The northern gallery, possibly from the 19th century, is above a vestry with a glazed front. An original octagonal timber pulpit with fielded panels and turned balusters has been reset in front of the vestry. Three 18th-century oak box pews are located at the rear south east corner, while the remaining pews are made of 19th-century deal. The chapel was licensed on January 11, 1721, and was supported by the Houlton family of the Manor House.