The Point In View

The Point-in-View is an 1811 building located on Summer Lane in Withycombe Raleigh. It was constructed by the Misses Parminter as a small non-conformist chapel, surrounded by single-storey almshouses for four spinsters. One room, now known as the Vestry, was designated as a school for six "poor female children." The chapel is a low square structure rendered in white, featuring a central flat-roofed entrance porch and pointed windows with diagonal glazing bars. Above the chapel, a four-sided lead spire rises. Miss Jane Parminter is buried on the premises. In 1878, the Minister, the Reverend J F Guenett, designed a pipe organ for the chapel, notable for its horizontally laid pipes beneath the rostrum, rather than the usual vertical arrangement. The organ includes a folding console that also serves as a reading desk, optimizing the limited space in the small chapel.