Listed Building record TQ 55 NE 189 - METHODIST CHAPEL

The following text is from the original listed building designation:

TQ 55 NE IGHTHAM CHAPEL ROW 4/10002 Methodist Chapel
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Wesleyan chapel. Datestone of 1848 but porch added and interior refitted in late C19. Built of Kentish ragstone coursed rubble with galleting and brick quoins and slate roof. Front has pedimented gable with blocked oculus. Below is central datestone and two tall round-headed arched windows with paired lancets divided by colonnettes, circular opening above and coloured glass leaded lights. Later C19 porch, also in ragstone with stone cornice and slate roof, has open pediment with similar round-headed window and door in right side approached up five steps. Side elevation has three similar round-headed windows and basement with flat-headed windows. Rear elevation has late C19 lean-to extensions. Complete late C19 chapel interior with wooden dado panelling, wooden gallery with cast iron quatrefoil panels, pews and pulpit rostrum with trefoil-headed back and panelling and scrolled iron prayer rail. Basement retains original fireplace and cupboards. Principally included as an externally complete and distinguished example of its date.
Listing NGR: TQ5919556581

Former Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Chapel Lane built in 1848. It has stone walls with stone galleting and brick dressings. The front of three bays with a pedimental gable has a later porch Windows altered in the late 19th century. (2)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Christopher Stell, 2002, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Eastern England (Bibliographic reference). SKE58544.