Description

SUMMER LANE
1.
5176
Withycombe Raleigh
The Point-in-View
SY 08 SW 6/64 6.12.49.
I
2.
1811. Built by the Misses Parminter as a small non-conformist chapel surrounded
by single storey almshouses for 4 spinsters. One room, now the Vestry, was
enclaved as a school for 6 "poor female children". The low square building
is rendered white. There is a centre flat roofed entrance porch and all the
windows are pointed with diagonal glazing bars. A 4 sided lead spire rises
above the chapel or 'Point Room'. Miss Jane Parminter is buried here. In 1878,
the Minister, the Rev J F Guenett, designed a pipe organ with pipes laid horizontally
(instead of the usual vertical construction) beneath the rostrum. The organ
has a folding console which is also a reading desk, thus making the maximum
use of space in the tiny chapel.

Listing NGR: SY0079183506

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q93882739

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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