CHURCH COTTAGE MANSE MORAVIAN CHURCH

CHURCH COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1363796
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH COTTAGE MANSE MORAVIAN CHURCH
Statutory Address:: CHURCH COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1363796
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1960
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH COTTAGE MANSE MORAVIAN CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH COTTAGE
Statutory Address 2:: MANSE
Statutory Address 3:: MORAVIAN CHURCH

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:: CHURCH COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: MANSE
Statutory Address:: MORAVIAN CHURCH

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bremhill
National Grid Reference:: ST 96558 74966

Details

BREMHILL EAST TYTHERTON ST 97 SE (north side) 8/35 Moravian Church, Manse and Church Cottage (formerly listed as Moravian 20.12.60 Church, Manse, House adjoining and schoolroom) GV II* Moravian chapel with attached manse and cottages, 1792-4, red brick with ashlar dressings and stone slate roofs. Single storey chapel and two storey houses each end. Chapel has rubble plinth, flush quoins to right, but is continuous with Manse to left, coped east gable and small hexagonal timber bellcote at east end. Three- window range of round-headed small-paned windows in ashlar surrounds with raised keystones and imposts. Windows are tall each side, centre is a stilted lunette over a large ashlar enclosed porch, added 1882 with double doors in Roman Doric doorcase. Inner doorcase is broad segment-headed flush and beaded, now infilled with panelling around door. Under left window is inset eroded memorial plaque and datestone AD 1792. Two large arched rear windows. Manse to left is continuous, but in Flemish bond brickwork where chapel is English bond. Three-window range with end stacks, quoins to left, rubble plinth, ashlar band and brick dentilled eaves course. Twelve-pane sashes in ashlar surrounds, paired each side, single to first floor centre over 6-panel door in raised moulded surround with hood on brackets. Church Cottage, to right, is two-window range original extended to east (church room and Flat 2) in matching style. Original has ashlar plinth and band, brick dentilled eaves, 15-pane sashes, paired to right and single to left over 6-panel door in raised moulded surround with hood on brackets. Brick stack at original east end. Addition beyond has 15-pane sash above, 12-pane sash and 4-panel door in plain raised surround below. Hood on brackets. Interior: chapel interior is plain with east gallery on two iron columns. Panelled gallery front, broken forward in centre. Moravian Settlement at East Tytherton was founded by John Cennick, a Methodist who evangelized in North Wiltshire from 1740 and the chapel was founded 1742. In 1745 the community joined the Moravian Brethren. A new house for single sisters (q.v. Kellaways House) was built 1785-6 and in 1792-3 the former chapel and manse of 1743- 4 were rebuilt. Church Cottage is apparently the girls' boarding school added 1793-4 and extended or altered later. Chapel interior was altered 1882 when porch was added and pulpit removed from centre of rear wall. (Information from C. Stell; Rev W.L. Bowles, A parochial history of the parish of Bremhill, 1828 153-5; N. Pevsner, Wiltshire, 1975 234

Listing NGR: ST9656274973

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Legacy System number:: 316159
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bowles, Reverend W L , A Parochial History of the Parish of Bremhill, (1828), 153-5
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)

Legal

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