Hartpury Methodist Chapel

Description

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

SO 82 SW HARTPURY OVER OLD ROAD

9/58 Hartpury Methodist Chapel



II

Former Wesleyan, now Methodist Chapel; 1887 (foundation stone); English bond red brick, blue brick and stone dressings; tiled roof, crested ridges. 4-bay, 2-storeys (lower is Sunday School). Gable to road: splayed blue brick top to plinth: square set buttresses to corners and to centre, with stone offsets. Two twin lancets, stone sills, springers and keystones, rubbed brick arches: plain blue brick bands at sill and springing level across gable.

Circular window above, 2 plain blue-brick bands and louvred lancet above. Dentil verge, slightly returned at foot; weathervane at apex. Right return, porch on left, up 6 stone steps, side buttresses, blue-brick band at springing of 2-centred arch to doorway, dentil verge to gable with terracotta finial. Double boarded door inside. Blue-brick offset at chapel floor level, buttresses between each bay, with twin lancets to chapel, blue brick arches over. Dentil eaves, bottom course missing: chimney on right gable. Below, 2 twin-lancets on right, with beyond boarded door with plain fanlight under flat-pointed head.

Interior: boarded floor to chapel, vertical boarding to dado; red brick above with yellow and blue brick dressings, paired to form alternate voussoirs to windows: cogged course of bricks in side walls above windows. Original stained pews; pulpit at right-hand end, up steps on each side with trefoil heads to panelling. Raised enclosure in front, timber rail with twisted iron supports with leaf tops. Behind pulpit a large, pointed arch half fills wall, infilled with cream, glazed tiles, with a text and some decoration.

Boarded roof, with exposed quasi-hammerbeam trusses, tie beam completed with iron rod, supported by iron 'king-post' in centre.

Sunday school below, 3 bays at road end, row of cast-iron columns down centre, lobby, kitchen and vestry other end. All glass obscured or coloured. Unaltered example of late C19 non-comformist chapel; prominent in landscape.

Listing NGR: SO8028424595

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0565 IOE Records taken by Geoffrey Dawson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Geoffrey Dawson. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project