Former Congregational Chapel

ST6834NW 8/111

BRUTON CP HIGH STREET (South side) No.28 (former Congregational Chapel)

24.3.61

GV II

Chapel, in row, now art gallery. C19 remodelling of C18 house. Doulting stone ashlar, Welsh slate roof behind parapets. In a plain C18 Gothick style; 2 storeys, symmetrical 5 bays, with bay 3 projecting slightly. Plinth, plain pilasters, cornice, plain parapet. 'Y'-traceried 2-light pointed wiwndows in plain surrounds, with original leading to bay 1; pointed arched doorways bays 2 and 4, the former having part window tracery above, the latter on ornate traceried fanlight; centre bay has Gothic style pointed moulded arch, arched label with headstops, and 4-centre sub-area over pair doors, in tympanum scroll with legend 'Congre-gational - Chapel'; above a C19 4-light grouped lancet window, crowned by Dutch style gable in which is an open quatrefoil panel in a circular recess. Chapel gallery remains inside, as does some good early C20 stained glass in South windows. Newly rebuilt in 1768, the premises were leased as a house and silk mill; they were converted into the chapel in 1803, and further alterations made in 1836 give its present form. (Couzens P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972).

Listing NGR: ST6828234846