Building record 780/0/11 - Church hall (former United Reform Church), Chapel Lane

Former Congregational chapel, originally built in 1810 as a preaching station of Weedon Bec, and converted to a Sunday school in 1880. Brick, slate roof. Single cell plan. 2 bays. West front has central 6-panel double-leaf door with round arched, gauged brick head with fanlight and semi-circular windows above with gauged brick heads and similar glazing to fanlight. Datestone in low gable above. Large round-arched windows to south side, 2 similar windows to east end with 2-light large-pane wood frames. Former vestry to north side, also of brick with gabled roof. Interior noted as having gallery at west end on octagonal columns with simple capitals.

{1} Former Congregational chapel, now church hall. Dated 1810. Brick, slate roof. Single cell plan. 2 bays. West front has central 6-panel double-leaf door with round arched, gauged brick head with fanlight and semi-circular windows above with gauged brick heads and similar glazing to fanlight. Datestone in low gable above. Large round-arched windows to south side, 2 similar windows to east end with 2-light large-pane wood frames. Former vestry to north side, also of brick with gabled roof. Interior noted as having gallery at west end on octagonal columns with simple capitals.

{3} Now the Sunday School, built in 1810 as a preaching station for Weedon Bec with which the congegation at Flore had been associated since the late 17th century. The former chapel, of brick and slate, has a gabled west front with round-arched doorway, fanlight and semi-circular canopy; two lunettes light the back of the gallery. The side and rear walls have each two tall round-arched windows. Monuments: externally against the west wall (1) Richard Clark Smith, 1822, and Mary Smith, 1843, slate headstone; (2) George Smith, 1834; other headstones of the early 19th century stand in the burial ground to the south and west.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 11/93 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F06 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1986, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Northamptonshire & Oxfordshire, p.140 (Report). SNN2902.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Flore (Photographs). SNN112168.

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Jan 18 2024 2:10PM