Congregational Chapel And The Manse

The Congregational Chapel and adjoining manse were built in 1865. The chapel is set back from the manse. The front elevations of the chapel are constructed from snecked grey limestone with Ham Hill stone dressings, while the other elevations are of limestone rubble and brick. The manse has brick elevations. They have slate roofs and stacks to the manse with brick shafts. The building is in a Baroque style.

The chapel's front has five bays and features Ionic pilasters rising to a stone entablature and a pedimented gable. The central bay is broken by a semi-circular arch. The ground floor is divided into three bays by pilasters, with a platband and moulded cornice above. Keyed round-headed arches are set on brackets, framing a central two-leaf door flanked by blind doorways with timber panels featuring round-headed grooved moulding. Above the door is a round-headed window with spoke glazing bars, set within a moulded eared shouldered architrave with a keystone. Either side of the centre bay are twelve-pane sashes. Gallery windows above the sashes are round-headed with moulded stone architraves, keyblocks to the heads, and round-headed sashes with spoke glazing bars. The five-bay return elevation has recesses with brick quoins in each bay; ground-floor windows are twelve-pane sashes, while first-floor windows are round-headed with glazing bars. The return elevation to the left is largely obscured by the manse.

The manse is in a matching but plainer style, with a gabled roof. It has an axial stack and a front-left corner stack. The asymmetrical two-bay front has a moulded coping to the gable. A round-headed doorway to the right features a keystone, moulded stone architrave with pilasters and capitals, a four-panel door featuring richly-moulded panels, and a plain two-pane fanlight. Windows have moulded stone architraves with keystones and shouldered pilasters with capitals. They are glazed with round-headed four-pane sashes; one window to the ground floor, two to the first floor. The left return of the manse is of Flemish bond brick with moulded brick corbels beneath the eaves and a cable-moulded brick stringcourse at first-floor level. A twelve-pane sash is on the first floor, with a boarded door and a three-pane fixed window on the ground floor, alongside a single sash.

The interior was not inspected but is likely of interest. The chapel replaced a meeting house from 1757 that had stood in Broad Street.