Methodist Chapel

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SO 71 NW CHURCHAM CHAPEL LANE, Birdwood (west side)

10/14 Methodist Chapel

GV II

Methodist Chapel; about 1814: Flemish-bond brickwork, ashlar quoins, rubble stone plinth: rear gable rendered, apparently on stone: tiled roof. 3 windows long, gable to road. Gable plain: central gabled, single-storey porch, late C19 addition: blue brick plinth, pointed head to boarded door, blue-brick voussoirs, stone springers and keystone. Small lancet window in sides of porch, also on left in main gable: each wooden frame, voussoirs and keystone over doorway. Above porch a central projection in gable rises to just short of ridge: may be a former chimney. Right return 2 rows of windows, semi-circular heads, brick-on-edge voussoirs, timber mullion and transom, one top-hung iron casement, leaded lights. Central window in lower row originally a doorway.

Late C19 leanto on left return probably built as Sunday School: C20 extensions at rear.

Interior flat ceiling, gallery across road gable, with simply- panelled front, supported 2 C20 iron columns: access by dogleg stair. Forms group with Birdwood House opposite (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO7421718700

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0221 IOE Records taken by Michael J H Bowden; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Michael J. H. Bowden. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project