Congregational Chapel

PITMINSTER CP ST22SW FULWOOD 6/110 Congregational Chapel 25.2.55 II Congregational chapel, now disused. Circa 1820, paid for by Thomas Welman of Poundisford Park (qv) Render grooved as ashlar over rubble and brick, quoins and plinth, steeply pitched hipped slate roof behind parapet with moulded cornice on facade, brick dentil cornice on returns. Plan: rectangular, entered on west front, south-east vestry in process of demolition at time of survey (March 1985). West front: 2 storeys, 2 bays; recessed semi-circular headed window openings (boarded up), flat surrounds and sills supported on console brackets, ground floor 2 wooden open pedimented Tuscan Doric doorcases with stone columns, leaded fanlights, flush panelled double doors. North front: 3 bays, first floor semi-circular headed 8-pane sash windows, ground floor 12-pane; east end 2 square headed windows containing stained glass flanking chimney; south front inserted doorway in south-east corner on side of entrance to former vestry. Interior not seen, said to contain timber lined roof. In poor condition at time of survey. The Annual Report of the Somerset Congregationalist Union 1896 states that at Fulwood "the present cause dates from 1732" and that Mr Thomas Welman paid for the building. He died in 1827 having been a member of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection. (Photograph in NMR).

Listing NGR: ST2105620364