United Reform Church And Former Manse, With Railings

NY 80 SE 7/143

MUKER KELD United Reform Church and former Manse, with railings

GV II

Chapel, former manse and railings. Dated 1860. Rubble with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof, wrought-iron railings. Single-storey chapel, with 2-storey manse to left, and 2-storey porch to chapel in centre. Rusticated quoins overall, and to porch. Chapel: 2 round-arched sash windows with glazing bars in ashlar surrounds with small keystones. Ashlar copings. End stack to left. Porch: hammer-dressed ashlar dressings with smooth margins. Round-arched doorway with quoined and voussoired surround with roll-moulding to arris, board door. Bench-mark to left. Above, sundial dated 1840 in square surround. To first floor, a round-arched opening in ashlar surround with small keystone containing 2-pane window and panel inscribed "KELD CHAPEL REBUILT 1860". Coped gable and on apex, round- arched bellcote. Single-storey reading-desk projection on right return. Interior of chapel: panelled west gallery on 2 cast-iron columns. Semicircular arch between chapel and reading-desk recess. Carved minister's seat, and decorative cast-iron front to dais. Original pews. Memorial wall slabs to Mr Edmund Alderson Knowles of Low Row, d.1835, who gave a field on Kisdon, called Broken Intake, as an endowment for the ministers of the chapel; and Rev Edward Stillman, d.1837, minister of the chapel. Manse: coursed rubble. 2 first-floor windows. To right, board door in round- arched ashlar surround with small keystone. Sash windows in ashlar surrounds. Shaped kneeler and ashlar coping to left. Stacks to left end and centre. In front of whole building, low rubble wall with saddleback ashlar coping supporting short railings with spear finials. Gate to manse between monolithic ashlar gate-piers with pointed caps. Gates to chapel porch between larger monolithic ashlar gate-piers with pyramidal caps. Replaced the Independent Chapel built 1789. VCH i, p.238.

Listing NGR: NY8929901136