The Old Chapel

The Old Chapel, Bath Road

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1290708
Date first listed:
15-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
The Old Chapel
Statutory Address:
The Old Chapel, Bath Road
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1290708
Date first listed:
15-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
The Old Chapel
Statutory Address 1:
The Old Chapel, Bath Road

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
The Old Chapel, Bath Road

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

District:
South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Cold Ashton
National Grid Reference:
ST 74605 72337

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 April 2025 to update the Name and Address and details in the description and reformat the text to current standards

ST 77 SW
8/37

COLD ASHTON C.P.
BATH ROAD
The Old Chapel

(Formerly listed as LOWER LYNCH Congregational Church)

II

Congregational Church, used as storage building at time of listing. 1865. Rubble with stone dressings, slate roofs with raised coped verges and kneelers. Nave, south east turret, east porch. Neo-Norman style. Three-bay nave has two round-headed windows with chevron carving at the heads, ashlar surround, octagonal turret with prominent quoins, round-headed slit windows and embattled parapet; porch has round-headed opening with chevrons carved at soffit of arch, jamb shafts on plain pedestals with scalloped capitals, string course above capitals, round-headed side lights, plank door with decorative strap hinges, name stone in gable, very worn, roll finial. South elevation of nave has large circular window with splayed glazing bars; north elevation has door and four-pane window in chamfered ashlar surround, round-headed lancet in gable; plinth and quoins. West elevation and interior not accessible; in poor condition at time of survey, (August 1984), overgrown in part with ivy.

Listing NGR: ST7460572337

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
394676
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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