Chinley Independent Chapel

Chinley Independent Chapel, Buxton Road

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1088033
Date first listed:: 21-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: Chinley Independent Chapel
Statutory Address:: Chinley Independent Chapel, Buxton Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1088033
Date first listed:: 21-Apr-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: Chinley Independent Chapel
Statutory Address 1:: Chinley Independent Chapel, Buxton Road

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Chinley Independent Chapel, Buxton Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Derbyshire
District:: High Peak (District Authority)
Parish:: Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside
National Grid Reference:: SK 05525 82001

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/04/2020

SK 08 SE 4/75

PARISH OF CHINLEY, BUXWORTH AND BROWNSIDE BUXTON ROAD (east side) Chinley Independent Chapel

(formerly listed as 'Independent Chapel at Chapel Milton')

21.4.67

GV II* Independent chapel, formerly non-conformist meeting house. 1711. Coursed gritstone rubble with flush gritstone dressings and quoins. Stone slate roof. Stone coped gables with moulded kneelers. Stone gable end bellcote to west, weathervane to east gable. Six bays.

South elevation - arched doorcase with keystone and chamfered quoined surround to west. Original studded wooden door To east five two-light flush mullion windows, chamfered to top and bottom. Easternmost window with semi-circular top, others flat headed. Flat stringcourse over. Six windows above. Two central ones with arched heads, others flat headed, mullioned windows, as below. Continuous plain band at impost level. All windows have original leaded lights. To rear, eastern chimney, square at base, rising to octagonal with embattled top.

Interior- galleries to south and west supported by plain iron columns. Wooden galleries have raised and fielded panels with dentilled moulding below. To east, organ. On north wall a centrally placed early wooden pulpit with stairs to east side. Flat balustered stairs to galleries at east and west. Under southern gallery incised decoration in plasterwork and inscribed 'John Mellor, George Mellor 1711'. Three charity plaques of 1751, 1765 and 1782.

Listing NGR: SK0552582001

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Legacy System number:: 82054
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.