United Reformed Chapel
UNITED REFORMED CHAPEL, GREEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192973
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1977
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- UNITED REFORMED CHAPEL, GREEN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192973
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITED REFORMED CHAPEL, GREEN STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- UNITED REFORMED CHAPEL, GREEN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Avebury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 10258 69935
Details
AVEBURY GREEN STREET SU 16 NW (south side) 11/74 United Reformed Chapel (formerly listed as Avebury Chapel) 2.11.77
GV II
United Reformed Chapel. Probably c1707, altered early C19, and school room to rear c1890. Sarsen with brick dressings.and gable, rear extension of brick. Roof tiled. Rectangular cell with entrance in north gable facing street but set behind graveyard. Front altered or rebuilt early C19 to include gallery, and 2 bay brick rear extension to rear, the first bay occupied by extension of chapel, the second a schoolroom. Facade has central arched boarded door and two pointed arched windows either side with 'Y' tracery, and further window above door to gallery. Hoodmoulds over windows. Gallery has high level 2-light side window. Schoolroom has 3 lancets in south gable. Interior of 3 bays with central reading desk in first bay of brick extension, wainscotted behind. West gallery on timber posts. Simple pews. The building is an example of a dissenter's chapel built after the Five Mile Act of 1665, being above that distance from Calne, Devizes and Marlborough. It is also within the southern inner and earlier henge monument.
Listing NGR: SU1025869935
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 311495
- 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.
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