Wesleyan Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1974. Chapel.
Wesleyan Chapel
- WRENN ID
- tilted-latch-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1974
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a Wesleyan Chapel, dating to 1816, and subsequently altered in 1860. A tablet on the front indicates the latter date, referring to the construction of a front narthex, the heightening of side walls and ceiling, and a refitting of the interior. The chapel is constructed of Flemish-bond brick with stone coping, a platband, cornice, arcade, rusticated pilasters, and a plinth, topped by a double-Roman tile roof.
The building has a rectangular plan and is in a Classical style, with a pedimented central three-bay section projecting forward, featuring a parapet that sweeps down on either side. The windows are in a Gothic style, with intersecting glazing bars, some with hinged top-opening casements. Some windows break the cornice of the parapet, including a date panel, while others are set in semicircular arched recesses and are set within gauged semicircular arched surrounds. A flat-roofed narthex or porch, with a curved corner at Dampiet Street, has rusticated pilasters flanking three semicircular arched doorways with moulded archivolts and keystones, supported on either side by small Ionic columns with moulded cornices, paired to the centre and resting on the plinth. The early 19th century interior wall features similar gauged brick arches over two tall windows flanking wide double doors with large overlights. The left return has six windows, and the right return is partly obscured. The rear and lower two-storey block, added in 1860, features six-pane sash windows to the front facing Dampiet Street.
The interior of the chapel retains a pointed-arched hoodmould over three Gothic recesses at the southwest end, with the central recess stilted. Cast-iron columns support a trellised, horseshoe-shaped cast-iron balcony around the room, with some stepped platforms from former seating still present around the perimeter. Behind the balcony is an elaborate cornice and frieze dating to around 1860.
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