Former Congregational Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Chapel. 3 related planning applications.
Former Congregational Chapel
- WRENN ID
- scarred-quoin-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Congregational Chapel, now an art gallery, is a building that underwent 19th-century remodelling of an 18th-century house. It is constructed of Doulting stone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof behind parapets. The chapel is designed in a plain 18th-century Gothick style and features two storeys with a symmetrical five-bay façade, where the third bay projects slightly. The building has a plinth, plain pilasters, a cornice, and a plain parapet.
The windows are 'Y'-traceried two-light pointed windows in plain surrounds, with original leading in the first bay. There are pointed arched doorways in the second and fourth bays; the second bay has part window tracery above, while the fourth bay features an ornate traceried fanlight. The central bay is highlighted by a Gothic-style pointed moulded arch, an arched label with headstops, and a four-centre sub-area over a pair of doors, which includes a tympanum scroll with the legend 'Congre-gational - Chapel.' Above this, there is a 19th-century four-light grouped lancet window, topped by a Dutch-style gable that contains an open quatrefoil panel in a circular recess.
Inside, the chapel gallery remains, along with some fine early 20th-century stained glass in the south windows. The building was newly rebuilt in 1768 and was initially leased as a house and silk mill before being converted into a chapel in 1803. Further alterations in 1836 gave the building its current form.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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