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Zion Chapel

A Grade II Listed Building in Harberton, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.3905 / 50°23'25"N

Longitude: -3.7113 / 3°42'40"W

OS Eastings: 278448

OS Northings: 55915

OS Grid: SX784559

Mapcode National: GBR QL.PS9K

Mapcode Global: FRA 3830.HY9

Plus Code: 9C2R97RQ+6F

Entry Name: Zion Chapel

Listing Date: 26 April 1993

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1216210

English Heritage Legacy ID: 101356

ID on this website: 101216210

Location: Harbertonford, South Hams, Devon, TQ9

County: Devon

District: South Hams

Civil Parish: Harberton

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Harbertonford St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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Description


HARBERTON
SX75NE
ZION HILL
5/446 HARBERTONFORD
Zion Chapel

II

Nonconformist chapel. Circa 1799. Slate rubble and local metamorphic
stone rubble. Slate hung from just above window cill level on south and
west sides only. Hipped roof with cement slurried scantle slates.
Plan: Rectangular plan on a north-south axis with entrance at the south
end below the gallery which is entered by external stairs on west side.
Built high above lane which is in deep cutting on east side. The rostrum
is at the north end. Situated in a small burial ground.
Exterior: Two pointed arch windows on east and west sides of two lights
with Y-tracery bars. The windows on east side have red brick arches.
External stone rubble steps with slate treads to gallery doorway to right
of west side, with pointed arch and plank door with Y-tracery cover moulds.
Doorway at south end with straight head double flush panel doors and slated
wooden canopy on shaped brackets. Small oculus above with radiating
spider-web tracery. Similar oculus on north end.
Interior: (28 feet by 17.5 feet) is simply plastered with flat ceiling and
matchboarded dado. Gallery at the south end on pair of thin columns;
gallery front panelled and with moulded architrave and cornice. The back
of the gallery is partitioned off to form vestry, with doorway at centre
with cornice on console brackets set on this shafts supported on a second
pair of consoles. Fragments of original seating in the gallery. The
simple rostrum at the north end appears to be later C19 but the front has a
small board inscribed 'Zion Chapel 1799' and the dado panelling behind the
rostrum might be original. The C19 portable benches are of pleasingly
simple design.
The earliest monument in the burial ground appears to be a tomb chest to
Thomas Goodman 1833, the pastor.
The chapel was built in 1799 for a Baptist Congregation but now serves a
Brethren assembly.
It is a good and largely complete example of a small Georgian nonconformist
chapel with an unusual external gallery stairs.
Source: C Stell, draft for RCHM inventory of non-conformist chapels.


Listing NGR: SX7844855915

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