BIRCHWOOD CHAPEL AND BOUNDARY WALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248315
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: BIRCHWOOD CHAPEL AND BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address:: BIRCHWOOD CHAPEL AND BOUNDARY WALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248315
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: BIRCHWOOD CHAPEL AND BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address 1:: BIRCHWOOD CHAPEL AND BOUNDARY WALL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BIRCHWOOD CHAPEL AND BOUNDARY WALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Buckland St. Mary
National Grid Reference:: ST 24043 14279

Details

BUCKLAND ST MARY CP BIRCHWOOD ST21SW 4/34 Birchwood Chapel and boundary wall

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Chapel of ease, 1887, Random rubble local stone with ashlar dressings, chamfered plinth, quoins, coped verges double-Roman tile roof. Plant 4-bay nave with chancel, south-west porch flanked by vestries, bell-cote over. Single storey, 3-bay porch, lean-to roof with gabled central pointed arch opening, chamfered, flanked by pointed arch windows, similar chamfered pointed arch inner doorway, plank door, square headed opening to vestry right, pointed arch window on right return, 2 lancets to right, 3-light window east end, renewed stonework, 4 lancets on north front, 2 at west end, pointed arch doorway to vestry on west front. Simple wooden bell-cote and bell. All windows with coloured glass. Interior not accessible at time of survey, known to have whitewashed brick walls and seats 80, Surrounded by random rubble chert walls with renewed coping, entrance in south-east corner. The expansion of Birchwood, confidently anticipated in the late C19, has failed to materialise and the chapel now stands in the midst of fields and orchards behind the hamlet. (Kelly Directory 1914.

Listing NGR: ST2404314279

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Legacy System number:: 429897
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Kellys Directory' in Somerset, (1914)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.