France Congregational Church and Hall
FRANCE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340424
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- France Congregational Church and Hall
- Statutory Address:
- FRANCE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340424
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- France Congregational Church and Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRANCE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND HALL
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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.
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:
- FRANCE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chalford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 89841 02976
Details
SO 8802-8902 CHALFORD CHALFORD HILL
13/29 France Congregational Church and Hall 16.5.86
II
Former Congregational chapel and school room, now disused. Datestone: 'FRANCE MEETING / REBUILT 1819'; school room added 1854. Squared and dressed limestone front, coursed rubble sides and rear; concrete tile to chapel, Welsh slate to school room. Rectangular double-height chapel; single-storey school room on east side with additional rear wing. Front: 3-window fenestration to chapel, outer keyed round arched sashes with glazing bars; central upper level Venetian window with oval date plaque above and clock-face below. Central round-arched doorway with C20 door, side-lights and large plain fanlight. Plain upper level band; plain parapet with moulded cornice. Tall hipped roof. Five-window round arched sash fenestration to school room to right, all with glazing bars. Moulded stone eaves; hipped roof. West side: 4-window fenestration on 2 levels, all round arched sashes with glazing bars. East side: similar fenestration as to west side of chapel. Central round arched doorway to school room with blocked fanlight; flanking round arched windows. Moulded eaves continued from front; central date plaque below, now illegible. Forecourt iron railings to school room have iron tops to principal posts with acorn finials. Rear: 2 round arched windows to chapel with Romanesque dividing colonnette. Interior: not accessible at time of survey (August 1986) but records show panelled gallery around 3 sides with later Cl9 seating. Central panelled pulpit at north end is original with later stairs. Various late C18 and early Cl9 monuments, many transferred from an earlier chapel. Sketch plan and interior view in NMR. (RCHM, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in Central England, 1986; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979).
Listing NGR: SO8984102976
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132823
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986)
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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