Building record MDO27609 - Methodist Chapel, New Street, Marnhull

A Wesleyan Methodist Chapel thought to have been built in the early nineteenth century. It is shown on the 1st epoch Ordnance Survey map, on which it is described as 'Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan)'.

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

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 156 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘The following monuments are of the early 19th-century and are two-storied, with coursed rubble walls and tiled roofs.
(18) Cottages, two adjacent, are contiguous to the E. end of (17). The tenement to the S. was originally a Methodist Chapel and has a gabled S. wall with inclined coping stones above shaped kneelers; near the apex is a square stone panel carved with a trefoil in which each lobe is again trefoiled; below is a recessed stone panel with a chamfered and moulded border with bead-and-reel enrichment. The large ground-floor window is modern, as are the openings in the E. front. The adjacent cottage on the N. has a symmetrical E. front of two bays with a central doorway.’

<3> Stell, C, 1991, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in South-West England, 120 (Monograph). SDO11597.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1486536 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 23 2024 11:55AM