Bethel Free Church Including Number 12

BIDEFORD

SS4526 TORRINGTON STREET, East-The-Water 842-1/7/266 (East side) No.12 Bethel Free Church including No 12

GV II

Chapel and adjacent house, now incorporated behind a single facade. 1877, enlarged 1888. Solid rendered front; left side-wall of chapel is of stone rubble. Slate roofs. Large chimney of old red-brick on right-hand end of ridge at No 12; appears to be shared with No 14. Late C19 or early C20 red-brick chimney on top of front wall of No 12, to left. 2 storeys. Gabled chapel-front to left, 4 windows wide; No 12, to right, 3 windows wide. Ground-storey of combined front is horizontally channelled and finished with a raised band. Upper storey has raised quoins at each end. Chapel has deeply-recessed 2-panelled double-doors at each end of ground storey, the upper panels with raised centres, the lower ones flush. Door to No 12 (set between the 2 right-hand ground-storey windows) has 4 flush panels; secondary door, in place of left-hand window, has 4 moulded panels. Windows in both storeys have 2-paned sashes with margin-panes; those in second storey have moulded architraves. Gable of chapel has lightly-moulded coping, kneelers, and tall, cross-like finial; in the centre of the gable is a large panel with moulded frame and the inscription BETHEL in high relief. No 12 has a heavily-moulded eaves-cornice. Rear wall of No 12 (visible from former railway station) has 6-paned sash-windows in upper storey. INTERIOR not inspected. Included for group value. (Wilson's Bideford Directory: 1913-: P.63).

Listing NGR: SS4568426347