Building record MDO4516 - Methodist Chapel, Okeford Fitzpaine

Former Methodist Chapel built 1830. Red brick front with rendered sides and half-hipped slate roof. Stone dressings added to north doorway and windows blocked in the late 19th century. Now a house.

METHODIST CHURCH (80391108) has a date stone of 1820. The N. facade is of brick and the other walls are rendered; the roof is slated. At the centre of the N. front is a doorway with a hollow-chamfered two-centred stone head, continuous jambs and a weathered hollow-chamfered label. Higher up, on either side of the doorway, are round-headed windows, each of two hollow-chamfered trefoil-headed two-centred lights with a cusped trefoil in the central spandrel: these windows have labels similar to that of the doorway. The date inscription is on a round stone panel in the half-hipped N. gable. <2>

Documented. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1962 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 80391108) Ch (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 203 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(3) METHODIST CHURCH (80391108), ¼ m. N.W. of (1), has a date stone of 1820. The N. façade is of brick and the other walls are rendered; the roof is slated. At the centre of the N. front is a doorway with a hollow-chamfered two-centred stone head, continuous jambs and a weathered hollow-chamfered label. Higher up, on either side of the doorway, are round-headed windows, each of two hollow-chamfered trefoil-headed two-centred lights with a cusped trefoil in the central spandrel; these windows have labels similar to that of the doorway. The date inscription is on a round stone panel in the half-hipped N. gable.’

<3> Stell, C, 1991, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in South-West England, 122-3 (Monograph). SDO11597.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206282 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 16 2024 3:33PM