Bethesda Chapel, Rillington
Description: Bethesda Chapel
Grade: II
Date Listed: 10 October 1966
English Heritage Building ID: 329724
OS Grid Reference: SE8530974375
OS Grid Coordinates: 485309, 474375
Latitude/Longitude: 54.1581, -0.6951
Location: Low Moorgate, Rillington, North Yorkshire YO17 8LH
Locality: Rillington
Local Authority: Ryedale District Council
County: North Yorkshire
Country: England
Postcode: YO17 8LH
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Listing Text
SE 8574 RILLINGTON LOW MOORGATE
(east side)
11/41 Bethesda Chapel
10.10.66
GV II
Congregational chapel. 1818 on datestone. Limestone ashlar with squared
limestone to sides and rear; tooled and chamfered sandstone dressings and
plinth; pantile roof. 2-storey, 3-bays, pedimented gable end to street.
All openings are boarded-up. Round-headed doorways of voussoirs flank a
lunette to ground floor. First-floor windows are round-headed and there is
a roundel in a raised surround to pediment, inscribed: BETHESDA
1818
CHAPEL.
Painted stone sills to all windows. Left and right returns: single radial-
glazed lunettes beneath semicircular arches. Paired modillion eaves course.
Rear: 2 round-headed, 2-light windows. Coped gables and shaped kneelers to
rear only. Interior: radial-glazed windows survive, with coloured glass in
those to rear. The ceiling is coved and contains a clock in the centre in a
painted and moulded star-burst surround.
Listing NGR: SE8530974375
Source: English Heritage
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