Building record 503/7/1 - Welford Congregational Church, West End

Congregational Chapel. Datestone 1793. Brick with slate roof. Single-unit church with vestibule and gallery at west end. Elevation to road is 2-storey 3-window range of casements under plain arches with gauged-brick surrounds. Central porch, in similar style and with panelled doors, is C19. Corbelled brick cornice and hipped roof with large central conical ventilator.

{1} Congregational Church. Datestone 1793. Brick with slate roof. Single-unit church with vestibule and gallery at west end. Elevation to road is 2-storey 3-window range of casements under plain arches with gauged-brick surrounds. Central porch, in similar style and with panelled doors, is C19. Corbelled brick cornice and hipped roof with large central conical ventilator. Interior not inspected but noted as having a gallery supported with cast iron columns and C19 fittings.

{3} The first permanent meeting-house for this congregation seems to have been built in 1700 on ground given by the Paynes of Sulby Hall. This was superseded in 1793 by the present chapel on a new site. The interior (42ft by 37ft) was entirely refitted c1891 and has a north-west gallery of this period.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 3/144 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G03 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1986, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Northamptonshire & Oxfordshire, p. 150 (Report). SNN2902.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Welford (Photographs). SNN113963.

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Mar 20 2023 10:36AM