Congregational Church

Description

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

ST0827 WIVELISCOMBE CP SILVER STREET (West side)

8/87 Congregational Church

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GV II

Congregational church. 1708, enlarged 1825. Rendered, shallow pitched Welsh slate roof. 2-storeys and 3-bays, no windows on north wall to Silver Street.

Entrance at west end at right angle to road; pointed windows and intersecting leaded tracery, semi-circular headed doorway with rusticated voussoirs and reveals, and illegible datestone above. South side, round headed sash windows with glazing bars and east bay slightly enlarged circa 1900 to take new organ.

East end, 2 Venetian tracery windows with stained glass of 1897. Interior: west end wooden gallery, panels sunk with croisseted mouldings, carried on cast iron columns erectecd 1825; space below blocked 1976. North wall gallery added 1876, cast iron enriched baluster. Coved ceiling. Pews of 1870. Mahogany pulpit with inset cast iron panels laid on red velvet background, late C19,

Listing NGR: ST0817527884

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0030 IOE Records taken by G Martine Allmey; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mrs G Martine Allmey. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project