Seion

Seion is a former chapel and vestry building dating from 1847, with additions made in 1875. The building is constructed of stucco with slate roofs and bracketed eaves. The original chapel is to the left, with decorative stucco detailing added in 1875, at which time the vestry was built to the right. The chapel's side-wall facade has two long central windows, two doors flanking them, and then two outer gallery lights, all with arched heads. The windows feature small panes, marginal glazing bars, and radiating bars to the heads, with opaque glass having acid-etched patterning and coloured glass to the margins. Moulded arches have keystones and impost bands, plain at ground floor level and moulded at the upper level. There are four-panel paired doors, and rusticated quoins to the left corner. The left end wall is whitewashed rubble with overhanging verges, and a single small-paned sash window on each floor, with stone voussoirs. The rear has a similar two-storey, two-window range. To the right of the front, the added vestry projects with matching details. A north-facing return wall has an entrance with a four-panel door leading up steps, a fanlight, moulded arched head, and keystone. The two bands are continued around from the chapel front, the upper band at impost level of the windows, and the lower band broken by the door. A first-floor window matches the adjoining gallery light, with similar glazing. The main gable has rusticated quoins, overhanging verges, and a fine first-floor arched triplet window, with the centre light being larger, and the piers between treated as pilasters. A plain basement door is on the ground floor to the right. Windows have glazing with marginal and radiating bars, but clear glass. The interior, which was proposed for removal in 1998-9, had a three-sided gallery with canted angles, supported by six iron columns. The gallery front had a cornice on deep brackets, below long horizontal panels and a moulded top rail. The building contained panelled pine pews, a great seat with a thin balustrade interrupted for a central reading desk, and ball finials to the corner and end posts. The pulpit had a heavy canted front, panelled with various shades of graining, with a front book rest on consoles, and steps up each side. The ceiling is simply boarded. The ground floor of the 1875 addition was likely a stable.