Blakeney United Reformed Church

In the entry for:

SO 60 NE AWRE CINDERFORD ROAD Blakeney 3/93 Congregational Chapel

• II

the entry shall be amended to read:

SO 60 NE AWRE CINDERFORD ROAD Blakeney

3/93 Blakeney United Reformed Church

25/01/85

• II*

Non-conformist chapel. Dated 1849. Squared and coursed stone with ashlar quoins and dressings, rendered to left-hand retum and to rear and with brick window dressings to rear block; ashlar facade; hipped slate roof to front chapel block and gabled slate roof to rear schoolroom block. Classical style with Gothick details. Rectangular-plan chapel with entrance to narthex beneath gallery; schoolroom block to rear. Gabled facade with pyramidal finials, set on pilaster buttresses to ends; debased classical porch with bootscrapers to sides and finial to simple pediment with cornice and finial; panelled double doors. Architrave to panel above, inscribed INDEPENDENT CHAPEL; semi-circular architraves with impost and key blocks to tall small-paned windows with radiating heads. Moulded beneath pediment with 1849 date set in oval panel to tympanum. Similar windows to 2-window returns, those on left-hand return with Gothick details to heads. To rear is lower schoolroom range, with 3 similar smaller windows which are graduated down from centre. INTERIOR: moulded ceiling cornice; dog leg stairs with turned balusters rise to gallery, which retains original pews with panelled backs and shaped ends, panelled balcony front with Gothick frieze interrupted by full-height trefoil-headed panels; gallery is supported on octagonal with moulded bases and capitals to fluted upper sections. Panelled screen walls and doors to narthex beneath gallery. Full set of original box pews, with pulpit set in railed area with wooden rail supported on wrought-iron stanchions with Gothic scrolls. Built to replace a chapel at Blakeney Hill which opened in 1823. A remarkably complete and architecturally distinctive example of its type, one ofthe most prominent and distinctive expressions ofnon conformist architecture in the Forest of Dean region.

SO 60 NE AWRE CINDERFORD ROAD, BLAKENEY 3/93 Congregational Chapel - - II

Former Independent Chapel, now Congregational Chapel. Dated 1849. Fine squared stone pecked surface and margins, Welsh slate hipped root. Entrance front with pilaster corners topped by obelisks and central pediment broken through by date stone plus obelisk. 2-windowed, arched heads, flat dressed surrounds, central pair of 3-panel doors in heavy 'doric' porch. South side rendered, 2-windowed arched, with simple tracery, flat band surrounds with keystone and impost blocks; north side similar, but exposed coursed and squared stone. Original wood sashes. At rear, cross block, low single storey, slate roof.

Listing NGR: SO6686607026