NO 1 AND ATTACHED FORMER CHAPEL TO RIGHT

NO 1 AND ATTACHED FORMER CHAPEL TO RIGHT, BARFORD CLOSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1178130
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: NO 1 AND ATTACHED FORMER CHAPEL TO RIGHT
Statutory Address:: NO 1 AND ATTACHED FORMER CHAPEL TO RIGHT, BARFORD CLOSE

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Date:: 2006-07-27
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1178130
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: NO 1 AND ATTACHED FORMER CHAPEL TO RIGHT
Statutory Address 1:: NO 1 AND ATTACHED FORMER CHAPEL TO RIGHT, BARFORD CLOSE

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:: NO 1 AND ATTACHED FORMER CHAPEL TO RIGHT, BARFORD CLOSE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Spaxton
National Grid Reference:: ST 23276 36941

Details

ST23NW SPAXTON CP BARFORD CLOSE (North side) FOUR FORKS

2/135 No. 1; and attached former chapel to right

II

House and attached former chapel to right, now workshop. 1846 by William Cobbe, forming part of the Agapemone for Reverend H. J. Prince; community disbanded 1958. Random rubble, slate roofs, some coped verges, 2 tall brick stacks and an ashlar stack. L-shaped frontage. House to left in Tudoresque style; 2 storeys, 3 bays, to each side a crenellated canted 2 storey ashlar bay window of 1:3:1 lights on each floor. Between the bays a freestone panel with shield. Central door opening in a chamfered dressed stone surround with a stopped label, French windows, transomlight. Chapel at right angles to right of house; buttressed; lancets with casements, leaded lights; door opening to roadside in single storey porch with diagonal buttresses, terminating as pinnacles, gable with finial, moulded 4-centred arch door opening, paired studded doors, fanlight with stained glass. Further door opening in the angle between the house and chapel, embattled single storey porch with buttresses, 4- centred arch door opening in a moulded surround, paired half-glazed doors, transomlight. Stone lion in relief set over. The Agapemone was infamous in the late C19 because of the activities and claims of Rev. H. J. Prince, a self-styled messiah. (Mander C., The Reverend Prince and his Abode of Love, 1976).

Listing NGR: ST2327636941

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Legacy System number:: 269397
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Mander, C , The Reverend Prince and his Abode of Love, (1976)

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