Armitage United Reform Church Chapel
Armitage United Reform Church Chapel, Rugeley Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382060
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Armitage United Reform Church Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- Armitage United Reform Church Chapel, Rugeley Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382060
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Armitage United Reform Church Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Armitage United Reform Church Chapel, Rugeley 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.
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:
- Armitage United Reform Church Chapel, Rugeley Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Armitage with Handsacre
- National Grid Reference:
- SK0777116166
Details
SK01NE
1578/6/10019
ARMITAGE WITH HANDSACRE
RUGELEY ROAD
Armitage
Armitage United Reform Church Chapel
16-AUG-00
II
Congregational chapel. 1820; by Thomas Birch; extended later C19. Red brick in Flemish garden wall bond with rendered dressings. Clay plain tile roof with moulded stone coping to gable ends.
PLAN: Small chapel, the auditorium with gallery over entrance at west end, vestry at east end and north 'aisle' that might have served as 'squire's pew or Sunday school; two-storey porch at west end possibly added in 1820s or 1830s. Later C19 school room in angle of east vestry and north 'aisle'. Tudor Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: West front has gabled two-storey porch with set-back buttresses with weathered set-offs, large moulded oculus with rose window and four-centred arch doorway with moulded label with shield stops; stepped west gable behind porch with large diagonal buttresses with weathered set-offs. North and south sides have two large windows with labels and pointed arch frames and large buttresses. North 'aisle' has large diagonal buttress with gabled pinnacles. Small vestry at east end with pointed arch doorway with hood mould and diagonal buttress with pinnacle. School room to NE with porch on west side with pointed arch doorway.
INTERIOR: Auditorium has vaulted plaster ceiling and two exposed cambered tie-beams with arcading above; west gallery with panelled front on slender posts and four-centred arches. Original simple pews in gallery. Auditorium pews replaced later C19. Polygonal pulpit. Panelled double doors to vestry with four-centred arch.
NOTE: The Armitage United Reformed Chapel was built in 1820, apparently by Thomas Birch of Armitage Lodge, who placed it in trust for the Congregationalists [now URC] in 1831, while he retained the right of burial in a private vault under the north 'aisle'.
Listing NGR: SK0777116166
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482425
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986), 208-9
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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