Listed Building: PROVIDENCE CHAPEL (1084808)

Grade II*
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1608, 10, 99
Date assigned 20 June 1967
Date last amended

Description

CRANBROOK STONE STREET TQ 7736 SE (west side) 10/99 20.6.67 Providence Chapel - II* Presbyterian chapel. 1795, 1803, 1808, 1818 and 1828 with late C19 alterations. Timber-framed and weatherboarded with slate roofs, hidden by parapet to front. Weatherboarded to front on first floor with masonry grooving on wooden supports of which one column has a Doric capital. The rest renewed or altered. Polygonal front of 7 faces on first floor. The central five with tall round- headed sashes with glazing bars in open boxes, the centre window being false. Ground floor to rear has evidence of two different builds of brick work. Staircases to chapel against westernmost bay of polygonal front and against east wall, which continues to gallery. INTERIOR: Baptisting under polygonal front in centre of floor in front of pulpit, (1914). Vestries also on ground floor. Chapel has flat plaster ceiling with ceiling beams showing stages of enlargement. South and west galleries with reeded edges to panels separated by reeded pilasters, all supported on columns, now marbled. Pulpit with 5-sided front and applied reeded mouldings to panels, supported on two marbled fluted columns. Seating, of early C19, benches with backs filled later. See B.O.E., W Kent, P237. Listing NGR: TQ7767836008

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Sources (1)

  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7767 3600 (point)
Map sheet TQ73NE
Civil Parish CRANBROOK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM