Congregational Church Forecourt Wall at Congregational Church
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, COOMBE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1278935
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Congregational Church Forecourt Wall at Congregational Church
- Statutory Address:
- CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, COOMBE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1278935
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Congregational Church Forecourt Wall at Congregational Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, COOMBE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- FORECOURT WALL AT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, COOMBE 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:
- CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, COOMBE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- FORECOURT WALL AT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, COOMBE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lyme Regis
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 34171 92278
Details
COOMBE STREET
1.
1357
(North East Side)
23.4.52. Congregational Church
(Formerly listed as Congregational
Chapel)
- Forecourt wall at Congregational
Church.
SY 3492 1/2
GV
2.
1750 to 1755 by John Whitty, Minister and architect. Pebbledash cladding to
walls of stone. Hipped slate roof. Coved and moulded cornice. Rusticated quoins.
Front elevation 2-storeyed with 4 round-headed windows below and 3 oval openings
above, 2 blocked. Round-headed doorway flanked by Doric pilasters with entablature
over; panelled double doors. C19 addition at left hand end with gable end to
front; rendered; circular window in centre above; below it, 6-panelled door with
painted voussoir flanked to either side by a round-headed window. Contemporary
fittings within.
Forecourt walls: C18 and C19. Wall before chapel has rendered and pebbledash
front to Coombe Street but has inner face of red and brown brick above a blue
lias base; ashlar coping. Brick gate piers with moulded capping to centre and
at ends; outer faces to Coombe Street clad in pebbledash. In centre, C19 gates;
rails with fleur-de-lys finials rising alternately to 2 different heights. At
left hand end, before C19 extension, a wall of regularly coursed stone rubble;
rendered coping.
Nos 23 to 28 (consec) together with the Congregational Church and forecourt wall
form a group.
Listing NGR: SY3417192278
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404523
- 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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