Ebenezer Chapel, Gatepiers, Railings and Enclosing Forecourt
EBENEZER CHAPEL, GATEPIERS, RAILINGS AND ENCLOSING FORECOURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248095
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ebenezer Chapel, Gatepiers, Railings and Enclosing Forecourt
- Statutory Address:
- EBENEZER CHAPEL, GATEPIERS, RAILINGS AND ENCLOSING FORECOURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248095
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ebenezer Chapel, Gatepiers, Railings and Enclosing Forecourt
- Statutory Address 1:
- EBENEZER CHAPEL, GATEPIERS, RAILINGS AND ENCLOSING FORECOURT
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:
- EBENEZER CHAPEL, GATEPIERS, RAILINGS AND ENCLOSING FORECOURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Upton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 99912 28946
Details
SS92NE UPTON CP UPTON VILLAGE
Ebenezer Chapel, gatepiers, 10/112 railings and enclosing forecourt -
- II
Non-conformist chapel, gatepiers and railings enclosing forecourt. Dated 1878. Squared and irregularly coursed local stone, buff brick dressings, quoins, plinth, slate roof, overhanging eaves, plain bargeboards. Plan: single cell with store room in basement on north front, land drops away steeply to north, set gable end onto road, South front: long pointed arch windows with translucent glass flanking pointed arch double doors with decorative hinges; datestone with semi-circular head, brick voussoirs and jambs inscribed "Ebenezer 1878". Two bay returns, similar pointed arch windows set above chamfered plinth; north front circular window in gable end, below plinth plank door to basement store with 2-light wooden mullioned window right. Interior not accessible at time of survey (June 1985). Narrow, rectangular forecourt fronting chapel: square brick piers set in corners of forecourt, bearing undressed lumps of granite; dwarf wall of squared irregularly coursed local stone, saddleback brick coping; cast iron trefoil-headed railings to front wall, wrought iron or cut out iron to returns and rear, In the mid C19 this settlement known as Ragland Castle became more important than Upton because of its position on the toll road, and the name was transferred when the Church of St James (qv) was rebuilt.
Listing NGR: SS9991228946
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429596
- 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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