Listed Building record TR 05 NE 62 - METHODIST CHAPEL

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1844 to 1844

Location

Grid reference TR 0566 5942 (point)
Map sheet TR05NE
District SWALE, KENT
Civil Parish BOUGHTON UNDER BLEAN, SWALE, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 0459-0559 BOUGHTON BOUGHTON STREET (South side)
6/18 Methodist Chapel
16.3.77.
GV II
Methodist chapel, now disused, 1844. Red brick with stone dressings and slate roof. Simple rectangular plan with projecting western tower cum entry porch. Tower in 3 stages, with open porch on ground floor having triple moulded arch and ogee surround, large 4 light Decorated style west window with mouchettes and ogee surround, and belfry of smaller section supported by flying buttresses with helm cap. Octagonal buttresses with pinnacles to left and right on tower and on main body of church. Traceried lancets left and right. Side elevations plain with 4 lancet windows, and C20 basement windows. Inscription over west window: Mesley..a..n 1844 Chapel. The chancel was decorated by Dr. Dallinger, preeminent in C19 microscopy, and a lay pre-acher here for 3 years (See Igglesden, vol VI, 18).
Listing NGR: TR0566359422


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM