Listed Building record MDO20613 - Congregational Chapel, The Street, Charmouth

A Congregational Chapel. A tablet set into the north gable reads: 'founded 1689, rebuilt 1815, restored 1866, restored 1963'. Two cob cottages adjacent to the Queen's Arms Inn, were converted to a meeting-house in or b efore 1689 by John Brice, the first pastor of the church. The property was transferred to a trust for Presbyterians in 1716. The building has stone walls covered in render and asbestos slate roof with pedimented gable end to street.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 88 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(2) CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, on the S. side of the road 210 yards E. of the church, is a plain rectangular building with stucco front. An inscription tablet in the N. pediment records that it was founded in 1689, rebuilt 1815 and restored 1866. The N. front has angle pilasters, cornice and pediment surmounted by a small wood turret with ogee-shaped lead-covered roof; the N. door has a round head and fluted architrave, and the windows are in two heights of two lights with round heads. The E. and W. walls contain round-headed windows. The interior is plain, with a gallery on slim columns at the N. end.’

<2> Stell, C, 1991, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in South-West England, 112 (Monograph). SDO11597.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 449769 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 5 2021 3:11PM