Elmore Congregational Church Including Front Boundary Wall

TIVERTON

SS9512 CHAPEL STREET, Tiverton 848-1/6/167 (North side) Elmore Congregational Church, including front boundary wall

GV II

Congregational Church. 1843. Squared grey stone rubble with window arches of dressed yellow stone. Slated roof with stone copings to the gable ends. simple oblong building, parallel to the street and set well back. EXTERIOR: side facing the road has 2 round-arched windows with latticed glazing bars. Between them a buttress; diagonal buttress at each end. Round-arched doorway in east gable wall. Gabled bell turret on apex of gable. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: boundary wall of stone rubble, the eastern section with cemented top, that to west with a tiled coping. At each end a square pier with low pyramidical cap, the latter standing on a projecting stone slab. The right-hand cap has been replaced in cement. Similar gate piers towards the western end; pair of iron gates with open quatrefoil panels and lily-head finials to the uprights. The wooden extension at the right-hand end of the chapel is not included in the listing. HISTORY: White's `Directory of Devonshire' described this as the Independent Chapel in Elmore Street (the old name for Chapel Street), built in 1843 at a cost of »750.

Listing NGR: SS9586812816