The Church Of The Good Shepherd, And East Boundary Railings

ST40NW WEST CREWKERNE CP WATERY LANE (West side) HEWISH

The Church of the Good Shepherd, and east boundary railings II

Church, Anglican Chapel of Ease. Late C19. Ham stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings; plain clay tiled roof with lands of beaver-tail tiles, saw-tooth ridge, stepped coped end gables with cross finials. Single cell plan of 3 bays, not orientated off east-west axis, with east porch, gothic revival. Plinth: hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in chamfered recesses, the lights 4-centre arched with incised spandrils, the windows 3-light with transomes and square labels, 2 windows to each flank wall. To centre bay on east side the porch, simple, with bell turret holding single bell on a coped gable, 4- centre hollov-moulded outer arch without label, with pair of cart-iron gates having fleur-de-lys spikes to middle and top rails; plan inner doorway. North gable plain, south gable rendered; in centre of west flank small projecting wing. Interior very simple, with arch-braced king post roof truss of 6 bays. Simple pews and other fittings, incluising C19 octagonal panelled stone font. About one metre east of porch the boundary - to south of the church in rubble walling with castellated top, about one metre high, but across frontage of church a low ashiar wall with shaped coping on which are spearpoint wrought-iron railings, with short returns to porch and pair of matching gates, all adding to the setting of the chapel.

Listing NGR: ST4208108144