Listed Building record MDO11486 - United Reform Church, Chapel Lane, Wimborne Minster

Nonconformist chapel of 1846 in early Gothic revival style, with rendered walls, a slate roof, with parapet to gable. Shown as an Independent Chapel on the Ordnance Survey map of 1885

Congregational chapel built 1846, superseding a chapel built in 1788 and enlarged in 1829. In early 'Gothic' revival style. Rendered walls, slate roof, with parapet to gable. Main north front has a central doorway with 2 centres arch in a square frame. Window above this has flowing Gothic tracery. Each side of this is an octagonal buttress, continued up as a turret, flanked by a plain lancet window. Similar plain lancets on side elevations.

Congregational Chapel with rendered walls and slate-covered roof built in 1846. It has a six-bay roof with hammer-beam collar trusses and is built in the Gothic style. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1974 (Map). SDO17396.

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<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 85 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(2) CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, 500 yds. N. of (1), has rendered walls and a slate-covered roof; it is in the Gothic style and dates from 1846. Inside, the chapel measures 33 ft. by 72¾ ft., and has a six-bay roof with hammer-beam collar trusses.
Fittings—Monuments: On E. wall, (1) of James Panton, 1778, oval tablet; on W. wall, (2) of Martha White, 1804 and others of her family, marble tablet. Seating: In N. gallery, plain seats with 'pointed' uprights.’

<4> Stell, C, 1991, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in South-West England, 133 (Monograph). SDO11597.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213242 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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May 12 2023 7:28AM