Listed Building record MDO10656 - Congregrational Chapel, now Museum, Whitcombe Road, Beaminster

Former Congregational Chapel, built 1749 and enlarged 1825, now Beaminster Museum. The building is one tall storey with ashlar stone walls and pyramidal tile roof.

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Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF076657 (Index). SDO14738.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, WHITCOMBE ROAD, BEAMINSTER

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 21 (Monograph). SDO97.

'CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, on the N. side of Whitcombe Road 280 yards E.S.E. of the parish church, has walls of squared and coursed stone with ashlar dressings and roofs covered with slates. A tablet on the S. front records that it was built in 1749 and enlarged 1825; the present building appears to date mostly from 1825. In the S. front are two doorways with fanlights in semicircular heads, with round windows over, and two lofty semicircular-headed windows with mullions and simple tracery. The other fronts have windows with segmental and two-centred heads. Inside there are E. and W. galleries on square moulded posts of wood. On the N. wall is a marble wall-tablet to James Daniel, 1711, put up in 1835.'

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Mar 28 2022 2:29PM