Octagon Chapel
OCTAGON CHAPEL, COLEGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1280186
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Octagon Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- OCTAGON CHAPEL, COLEGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1280186
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Octagon Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- OCTAGON CHAPEL, COLEGATE
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:
- OCTAGON CHAPEL, COLEGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Norwich (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 23080 09071
Details
TG 2309 SW COLEGATE (north side) 11/241 26.2.54 Octagon Chapel GV II* Former Presbyterian Chapel, now Unitarian Chapel. 1756 by Thomas Ivory. Red brick. Pantile roof. Octagonal plan. Single storey with gallery. 2 bays to each side, except for the entry face :- 3 bays. Central 2-leaf door with semi-circular arch and moulded surround. Single-storeyed pedimented portico with 4 unfluted Ionic columns and 2 pilasters. 5 steps up. The door is flanked by sash windows with glazing bars and rubbed brick segmental arches. 3 sash windows above with glazing bars and semi-circular rubbed brick arch and top sash. Bracket cornice. Pyramidal roof with small dormer in each bay with semi-circular head and round windows. Wrought-iron pinnacle on top of roof. Very good interior detail with giant Corinthian columns and wooden galleries between.
Listing NGR: TG2308009071
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 228990
- 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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