Building record MDO6503 - Methodist Chapel at Southwell Street, Portland

A Methodist chapel at Southwell, dated to 1849. A small plain rectangular building with its gable to the street, the chapel has walls of hammer dressed stone blocks and a slate roof. It has two 19th-century 16-pane sashes to stone cills flanking its central gabled porch with a slab roof. Coped gables with cross-roll saddle stones. The street front unchanged, except for a later inscription "Southwell Methodist Church 1849" on the gable above the doors. <1>

Methodist chapel. Dated 1849. Hammer-dressed stone block, slate roof. Small chapel, gable to street, has two 19th century 16-panes sashes to stone cills flanking central gabled porch with slab roof; pair of plank doors to segmental head. Coped gables with cross-roll saddle stones. Very modest, but street front unchanged. <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(5) METHODIST CHAPEL, Southwell (688700), with walls of squared stone and roof covered with slate, is a small plain rectangular building dated 1849.’

<2> Stell, C, 1991, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in South-West England, 126 (Monograph). SDO11597.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1486584 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jun 1 2023 9:40AM