Congregational Chapel and attached stone wall along road to north east

Congregational Chapel, Whitcombe Road, Beaminster, DT8 3NB

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1290323
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: Congregational Chapel and attached stone wall along road to north east
Statutory Address:: Congregational Chapel, Whitcombe Road, Beaminster, DT8 3NB

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1290323
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: Congregational Chapel and attached stone wall along road to north east
Statutory Address 1:: Congregational Chapel, Whitcombe Road, Beaminster, DT8 3NB

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:: Congregational Chapel, Whitcombe Road, Beaminster, DT8 3NB

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Beaminster
National Grid Reference:: ST 48160 01162

Details

ST 4701/4801 7/170

BEAMINSTER WHITCOMBE ROAD (NORTH SIDE) Congregational Chapel and attached stone wall along road to north east

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GV II Congregational Chapel. Built 1749 enlarged 1825. (Tablet on south wall). Lias ashlar walls, pyramidal tile roof with ball-finial at apex. One tall storey. Two bays, tall three-light round-headed windows with keystones. Square section mullions with tracery-pattern in the head. Two oculus-windows at left and right, high, with dressed stone architraves. Two doors at left and right ends, wood, two-leaf with fanlights over. Dressed stone architraves with projecting dropped keys.

Interior: galleries removed. Tablet on north wall, to James Daniel, Gent. 1711, mentions his escape after Sedgemoor and the Daniel Burial Ground at Knowle Farm. Plaque to Richard Hine 1860-1939. Reeded elliptical doorcases.

Attached coursed lias stone wall, 25 yards east along road, with stone coping. Early C18. One later doorway inserted.

Listing NGR: ST4816201164

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Legacy System number:: 395301
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 21

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