Building record 2660/11/1 - Weldon Congregational Church & Attached Schoolroom

Congregational chapel. 1792, gallery added 1808. Limestone ashlar with Colleyweston slate roof. Single-unit chapel with vestibule and gallery. Central arch-head window with keystone and renewed Gothic glazing bars flanked by 2 similar arch-head door openings, one now blocked. Ashlar gable parapets with truncated stack at end.

{1} Congregational chapel. 1792, gallery added 1808. Limestone ashlar with Collyweston slate roof. Single-unit chapel with vestibule and gallery. Central arch-head window with keystone and renewed Gothic glazing bars flanked by 2 similar arch-head door openings, one now blocked. Ashlar gable parapets with truncated stack at end. Right gable has similar arch-head window. Right gable has 2 square-head windows. Mid C19th single storey school room and vestry in similar style is attached to left. Interior has panelled gallery front and monument to John Phillips, died 1837, is casket shaped marble tablet.

{2}Congregational chapel. 1792, gallery added 1808. Single-unit chapel with vestibule and gallery. Mid 19th century single storey school room and vestry in similr style is attached to left. Interior has panelled gallery front and monument to John Phillips, died 1837.

{3} Meetings held from 1706 in the house of Edward Nutt were transferred c1736-8 to a small barn on the present site, which had been converted to a meeting-house. This was replaced in 1792 by the existing chapel which was enlarged in 1808 by the addition of a gallery.
Lists benefactions and monuments.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 16/174 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1992, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), K06 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN46686.

<3> The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1986, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Northamptonshire & Oxfordshire, p. 149-50 (Report). SNN2902.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Weldon (Photographs). SNN113888.

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