Building record 472/4/1 - Kilsby United Reformed Church and adjoining cottage

Chapel. Built 1763 or 1784 (sources differ). Coursed squared ironstone, corrugated asbestos tile roof. Listed

{1} Chapel. 1784. Coursed squared ironstone, corrugated asbestos tile roof. 2 storeys; 3 bays. Central 2-light casement window, the lintel covered by board inscribed with times of services, on ground floor. Doorway on either side with wood lintel and 6-panel door. Three 2-light transomed windows with wood lintels on the first floor. Semi-circular window with stone surround with keyblock in gable. Coped gable end. Interior: pulpit with canopy, C18. Panelled dado around all walls. Gallery on 3 wood Tuscan columns with panelled front, the upper part now partitioned to form a schoolroom. Pews late C19. Wall tablet inscribed "To the memory of Thomas Strange, this house erected and this congregation greatly improved ….. He settled at Kilby in 1753 and died in 1784". Formerly the Congregational chapel. Cottage adjoining to left, late C18, brick, slate roof, brick stack. 2 bays; 2 storeys. Doorway with arched brick surround and 4-panel door in right bay. Two blocked windows with similar brick surrounds to left. Carriage entrance with wood lintel and plank doors in left bay. Two-light casement windows with wood lintels on the first floor. Interior not inspected.

{3} Congregational Chapel built in 1763. A house had been fitted out for meetings in 1738, and this was succeeded in 1763 by the present building. Coursed squared ironstone, corrugated asbestos tile roof. 2 storeys; 3 bays. Central 2-light casement window, the lintel covered by board inscribed with times of services, on ground floor. Doorway on either side with wood lintel and 6-panel door. Three 2-light transomed windows with wood lintels on the first floor. Semi-circular window with stone surround with keyblock in gable. Coped gable end.

{5} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 15/157 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F04 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1986, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Northamptonshire & Oxfordshire, p. 142/site 33 (Report). SNN2902.

<4> Coleman, T, 1853, Memorials of the Independent Churches of Northamptonshire, p. 304-13 (Book). SNN54569.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Kilsby (Photographs). SNN112704.

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