Corfe Castle Evangelical Congregational Church, including boundary railings on north.
Corfe Castle Evangelical Congregational Church, East Street, Corfe Castle, Wareham, BH20 5EQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229998
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Corfe Castle Evangelical Congregational Church, including boundary railings on north.
- Statutory Address:
- Corfe Castle Evangelical Congregational Church, East Street, Corfe Castle, Wareham, BH20 5EQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229998
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Corfe Castle Evangelical Congregational Church, including boundary railings on north.
- Statutory Address 1:
- Corfe Castle Evangelical Congregational Church, East Street, Corfe Castle, Wareham, BH20 5EQ
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:
- Corfe Castle Evangelical Congregational Church, East Street, Corfe Castle, Wareham, BH20 5EQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corfe Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 96140 81933
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/10/2019
SY 9681
7/62
CORFE CASTLE
EAST STREET (West side)
Corfe Castle Evangelical Congregational Church, including boundary railings on north.
(formerly listed as United Reformed Church, including boundary railings on north, previously listed as Congregational Chapel),
20.11.59
GV
II
Built as Independent Chapel 1835. Rubble stone walls. Slate roof with coped gables with apex finials. Simple rectangular plan, with north porch. This has ashlar-faced north wall and coped gabled roof with apex finial. Date plaque over door. In each side wall, two tall round-headed windows with plain ashlar surrounds. In west wall, a triple round-arched window with Romanesque style columns as mullions.
Interior plain, with segmental arched plaster ceiling and semi-circular niche in east wall. All furnishings late C19
Iron boundary railings to churchyard on north, early C19. Railings with shaped tops. Ornamental overthrow with lamp housing to gateway. Matching iron gates.
Listing NGR: SY9614081933
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109214
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970)
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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