Bethel Chapel, Gatepiers and Retaining Wall With Steps Fronting Property
BETHEL CHAPEL, GATEPIERS AND RETAINING WALL WITH STEPS FRONTING PROPERTY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344605
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bethel Chapel, Gatepiers and Retaining Wall With Steps Fronting Property
- Statutory Address:
- BETHEL CHAPEL, GATEPIERS AND RETAINING WALL WITH STEPS FRONTING PROPERTY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344605
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bethel Chapel, Gatepiers and Retaining Wall With Steps Fronting Property
- Statutory Address 1:
- BETHEL CHAPEL, GATEPIERS AND RETAINING WALL WITH STEPS FRONTING PROPERTY
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:
- BETHEL CHAPEL, GATEPIERS AND RETAINING WALL WITH STEPS FRONTING PROPERTY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chipstable
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 05302 25724
Details
CHIPSTABLE CP WATERROW ST 02 NE 2/15 Bethel Chapel, gatepiers and retaining wall with steps fronting - property - II
Congregational church. Dated 1890. Roughcast over rubble, rendered plinth, rusticated quions, slight bell-cast to clay tiled roof, decorative ridge tiles, decorative terracotta finials gable ends. Plan: single cell set into hillside parallel with road, approached from south corner by lateral flight of steps, gate piers with lamp overthrow and retaining wall running the length of the building. Two windows left, one right of entrance, rusticated jambs to openings, voussoirs with inverted arch heads and decorative keystone to doorway, arch head windows, 2-light with marginal glazing bars and Gothick tracery tops, plain fanlight to plank door; wrought iron lamp bracket to left of entrance. Right return inaccessible at time of survey (May 1985), left return 2 similar arch head windows with rusticated jambs and plain voussoirs, date stone in gable end "AD 1890"; flat roofed addition left, C20 window above plank door. interior not seen. Gatepiers: brick with inset moulded decorative glazed panels, concrete pyramid tops, modillion cornice (damaged on right pier), plinth, wrought iron overthrow with lamp. Flight of steps 1;4;5, slate treads, unglazed tiles on landings in poor condition. Wall; squared, irregularly coursed local stone, quoins moulded brick coping, about 2 m high at east end stepped down to gate pier at south end. A good end example of a non-conformist chapel. Waterrow was the most important settlement in the parish in the C19.
Listing NGR: ST0530225724
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271168
- 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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