Zoar Chapel
ZOAR CHAPEL, PEACOCK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240086
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Zoar Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- ZOAR CHAPEL, PEACOCK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240086
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Zoar Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ZOAR CHAPEL, PEACOCK 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:
- ZOAR CHAPEL, PEACOCK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Gravesham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 65037 73910
Details
TQ 67 SW GRAVESEND PEACOCK STREET
7/233 Zoar Chapel
II
Chapel of the Street or Particular Baptists. 1845. Stock brick with cement dressings. Slate roof with pedimented gable ends.
Rectangular single cell plan with entrance at east end and Sunday School at the west end. Neo Classical style.
3-bay east end with brick pilasters with plain capitals supporting entablature with large moulded cement pediment with circular ventilator and plaques inscribed ZOAR CHAPEL in tympanum; panelled double doors with raised panel above in central bay and tall 15-pane sashes in flanking bays. 7-bay right hand return (north) with similar sashes with brick pilasters between supporting brick entablature on similar brick pilasters, the right hand part of gable recessed and with lean-to entrance. Lantern on ridge of Sunday School.
Interior: Plastered arcaded walls. Arch braced roof trusses on corbels with metal tie-rods. Panelled rostrum at west end with rail in front with cast-iron balustrade. Benches with shaped ends. Panelled internal porch at east end. Two wall tablets, one of which is to I.C Johnson, who was responsible for the plans and erection of the chapel. Johnson was a manufacturer of Portland cement and founder of the cement works at Greenhithe.
Listing NGR: TQ6501673796
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 356460
- 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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