Gospel Hall

TEIGNMOUTH

SX9373 BITTON PARK STREET 25-1/4/105 (East side) 29/07/83 Gospel Hall

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Ebenezer chapel, now Gospel Hall. Probably c1800. Painted render with a slate roof. Rectangular plan. Gothick style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Ogee arches to 8/8-pane sash windows with interlacing tracery. The facade is articulated by pilasters with pyramidal caps above the parapet, those to the centre rise to flank another parapet with a recessed horizontal panel trefoiled at the sides. A 1st-floor sill band and cornice bands span the building. An ogee-arched central entrance has a rectangular flat-roofed projecting porch, flanked by chamfered pilasters with pyramidal caps above a plain cornice band and cyma moulding to a Tudor-arched entrance. High above the 1st-floor windows to a gallery are deep quatrefoil recesses. Flanking the facade are single-storey gabled blocks with quatrefoils to the apexes. The right return has 3 windows similar to those at the front but with 5/10-pane sashes. C20 additions to the right. INTERIOR: remodelled C20. HISTORICAL NOTE: built by a congregation that had George Muller as pastor in the 1830s. Pevsner describes it as "A charming stuccoed front with ogee-headed windows and blank quatrefoils typical of unscholarly medievalizing designs of the late C18-early C19."

Listing NGR: SX9384773126