Description

SW 73 NW STITHIANS HENDRA

2/252 Wesley Chapel including walls
gate-picas, gates and railings at
10.7.57 road frontage
(formerly listed as Weleyan Chapel)

GV II

Wesleyan chapel and adjoining schoolroom. Datestone 1814. Stuccoed elevations. Dry
Delabole slate roof with pedimented gable at entrance front.
Plan: Overall L-shaped plan including later schoolroom. Chapel is a rectangular
aisle-less plan with gallery on 4 sides. The entrance and stair hall is at the east
end and the rostrum is at the west (ritual east) end. Large schoolroom adjoins the
west end and this has a heated wing at right angles to its right-hand (north) side.
Exterior: 2 storey elevations. Symmetrical 4-window east entrance front with 2 wide
elliptically arched doorways towards left and right. Each doorway has its original 3
flush-beaded panelled doors and elliptical fanlight. In front of the doorways is a
tetrastyle prostyle Tuscan porch with moulded entablature. The square column-like
corners of the front are broken forward; first floor windows (probably circa 1900)
have arched lights and coloured glass to the spandrels. There are moulded hoods on
consoles over the windows and the pediment and flanking 'columns' have moulded
cornices. The side walls have their original 16-pane hornless sashes (4 windows to
each side on 2 floors).
Schoolroom has a 3 window front (left-hand wall) facing the road and its opposite
wall is a symmetrical 2 window gable-ended front with central doorway and 2 round-
headed windows with coloured glass.
Interior: has all its circa 1860s fittings and features. There is a cantilevered
gallery carried on paired brackets over Tuscan columns. Box pews, bow-fronted
rostrum.
Sources: An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels by Christopher Stell, RCHM.

Listing NGR: SW7250137110

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613789

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