Listed Building record MDO15112 - Congregational Chapel (now Phillips Auctioneers), Long Street, Sherborne

(ST 6400 1662) Cong'l Ch. (NAT). (2)

Union Chapel, Congregational, built in 1803 and enlarged in 1821. Cement rendered and rough-cart walls with ashlar dressings. (1)

Congregational Chapel, Grade II. (3,4)

Documented. (5)

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 211 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(5) Union Chapel, Congregational, on N. side of Long Street, 220 yards N.E. of the abbey, has cement-rendered and rough-cast walls with ashlar dressings. It was built in 1803 and enlarged in 1821. The main S. front in revived-Gothic style is designed partly as a duality with panelled strip-buttresses at either end, two doorways with two-centred heads in panelled surrounds and two four-light windows over with geometric tracery in two-centred heads; there is a low-pitched gable with parapet wall, and in the apex a roundel in quatrefoiled frame inscribed with the name and date of the chapel. The E. front contains windows with two-centred heads and round quatrefoiled windows above. On the N. gable is a small rectangular open bell-cote with flared roof and weather-vane. Inside there is a gallery with panelled front supported on iron posts; other fittings include, on the E. wall, a marble tablet by King of Bath to Samuel Scott and Grace his wife, 1836, and on the W. wall a tablet to Rev. James Weston, 1823, with side-pilasters, cornice and urn. At the entrance to the churchyard is a wrought-iron gateway and overthrow dated 1816.'

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1964 (Map). SWX1197.

(ST 6400 1662) Cong'l Ch. (NAT)

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 380 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> DOE (HHR), 1973, List of Buildings of Special Historic and Architectural Interest: West Dorset Urban District of Sherborne, 94 (Scheduling record). SDO17491.

<5> Stell, C, 1991, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in South-West England, 127 (Monograph). SDO11597.

<6> Cottrell, T, 1997, A preliminary archaeological assessment of the proposed development of land adjacent to Brecon House, Sherborne, Dorset (Unpublished document). SDO10369.

<7> English Heritage, 2006, Listed buildings data disk (Digital archive). SDO12545.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 887379 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 23 2024 1:05PM