Chapel And Railings

SD 89 NE MUKER B6270 (west side) Thwaite

13/130 Chapel and railings

• II

Former Congregational chapel, converted to two cottages, and railings. 1863. Coursed watershot hammer-faced sandstone rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings, stone slate roof, cast-iron railings. Italianate. Single storey, 1 x 3 bays. Gabled entrance front: chamfered rusticated quoins. In corners, 2 slightly-projecting ashlar porches containing round-arched Tuscan doorways with 4-panel leaved doors, surmounted by a projecting cornice carrying acroteria. Sill band below central window opening with round arch of rubble voussoirs and console keystone, containing 2 round-arched lights with glazing bars, and blind circle and 2 trefoils in tympanum. In gable, keyed oculus with board infilling. Kneelers, ashlar copings. On apex, round-arched ashlar bellcote surmounted by spiked orb. Side elevations: sill band supporting 8-pane round-arched windows with ashlar surrounds and impost bands. In front of chapel low rubble wall with ashlar coping and cast-iron railings. Each finial consisting of a circle containing a quatrefoil topped by a fluted cone with knob. Turned baluster interval posts.

Listing NGR: SD8914498202