Congregational Chapel and the Manse
CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL AND THE MANSE, 98, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197110
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Congregational Chapel and the Manse
- Statutory Address:
- CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL AND THE MANSE, 98, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197110
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Congregational Chapel and the Manse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL AND THE MANSE, 98, HIGH STREET
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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:
- CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL AND THE MANSE, 98, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 82965 00401
Details
CREDITON
SS826000 HIGH STREET 672-1/5/115 (North side) No.98 Congregational Chapel and the Manse
GV II
Congregational Chapel and adjoining manse. 1865 (Pevsner). Front elevations of snecked grey limestone with Ham Hill dressings; limestone rubble and brick to other elevations of chapel; return of manse brick. Slate roofs; stacks to manse with brick shafts. Baroque style. 5-bay chapel to right,set back from the manse to the left. Exterior: 3-bay front has Ionic pilasters to stone entablature and pedimented gable broken by semi-circular arch to central bay. Central ground-floor bay is divided into 3 by pilasters with a platband and moulded cornice above, framing keyed round-headed arches on brackets to central 2-leaf door flanked by blind doorways having timber panels with round-headed grooved moulding.Round-headed fixed window with spoke glazing bars above the door with a moulded eared shouldered architrave with a keystone. To left and right of the centre bay, 12-pane sashes. Above the sashes round-headed gallery windows have moulded stone architraves with keyblocks to the heads and are glazed with round-headed sashes with spoke glazing bars. The 5-bay right return has recesses with brick brick qouins to each bay: ground floor windows 12-pane sashes; first floor windows round-headed with glazing bars. The left return probably similar but largely obscured by the manse. The manse is in a matching but The manse is in a matching but plainer style. 2 storeys. Gabled roof, end on to the forecourt. Axial stack and front left corner stack. Asymmetrical 2-bay front with a moulded coping to the gable. Round-headed doorway to the right with a keystone and moulded stone architrave with pilasters with capitals and a 4-panel door with richly-moulded panels and a plain 2-pane fanlight. Windows all have moulded stone architraves with keystones and shouldered pilasters with capitals. Windows glazed with round-headed 4-pane sashes: one window to the ground floor, 2 to the first floor. The left return of the manse is Flemish bond brick with moulded brick corbels under the eaves and a cable-moulded brick stringcourse at first floor level. 12-pane first floor sash in the centre. The ground floor has a boarded door to the left with an overlight; a 3-pane fixed window alongside to the right and one first and one ground floor sash. Interior: Not inspected but probably of interest. The chapel replaced a 1757 meeting house in Broad Street (Pevsner). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner, N., & Cherry, B.,: Devon: London: P.297).
Listing NGR: SS8294200380
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387040
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 297
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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