The Old Chapel
THE OLD CHAPEL, CHAPEL LANE, UPPER BROUGHTON, LE14 3BB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235982
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD CHAPEL, CHAPEL LANE, UPPER BROUGHTON, LE14 3BB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235982
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD CHAPEL, CHAPEL LANE, UPPER BROUGHTON, LE14 3BB
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:
- THE OLD CHAPEL, CHAPEL LANE, UPPER BROUGHTON, LE14 3BB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Rushcliffe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Upper Broughton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK6836126166
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/06/2015
SK62NE
6/141
UPPER BROUGHTON
CHAPEL LANE (east end)
The Old Chapel
(Formerly listed as The Free Church)
25.9.79
II
Former chapel, now private dwelling. Dated 1795, porch circa 1900. Brick. Blue slate roof with gabled ends and a dentilled eaves cornice at rear. Two storeys. Symmetrical facade. Later porch with dentilled eaves cornice and set-back double doorway obscures the lower part of a central round-arched window and the two symmetrically placed round-arched, panelled entrances. Two fixed-light windows with glazing bars at high level. Central slate plaque with the date '1795'. Lean-to addition to right. Left return has 2 ground floor fixed lights with shallow segmental heads. The rear elevation is again symmetrical. 2 large centrally placed segmental headed windows and smaller flanking windows to each floor.
Interior: re-arranged with late C19 pine-boarded furnishings, the axis now being south-north. Slate memorial on north wall to William Rouse of Hose d.1801 aged 62 and Ann his wife d.1835, erected by Joseph Rouse son of the above, signed Glenn, Hose. On the west wall a marble oval memorial to Elizabeth Severn relict of the late Rev. William Severn, Unitarian Minister, d.Feb. 15th 1819 aged 64. The pulpit was formerly centrally placed on the west wall between the 2 large windows. North and south galleries have been removed. The General Baptist Congregation was formed in the mid C18 by preachers from East Leake. It joined the New Connexion in 1802.
RCHME. Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, 1986.
Listing NGR: SK6836126166
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426885
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986)
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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