Building record 1221/0/40 - Yardley Chapel

Congregational chapel. Dated 1825. Coursed limestone rubble, slate roof. Central 6-panel double-leaf doors with fanlight and round-arched brick head flanked by blocked windows with similar heads, that to left blocked by small lean-to addition. Three windows above with round-arched brick heads and timber Y-tracery.

{1} Nonconformist chapel. Dated 1825. Coursed limestone rubble, slate roof. Central 6-panel double-leaf doors with fanlight and round-arched brick head flanked by blocked windows with similar heads, that to left blocked by small lean-to addition. Three windows above with round-arched brick heads and timber Y-tracery. Blank lunette to pedimental gable with brick surround, cemented within surround and inscribed YARDLEY CHAPEL/1825. Interior has panelled gallery on pairs of timber Tuscan pillars. Clock-face to gallery front signed Walter Prestidge, Towcester. Panelled pulpit.

{3} Puts date of chapel at 1826

{4} Undated photo, also photo dated 29.10.1993;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 14/147 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F11 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1986, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Northamptonshire & Oxfordshire, p. 153/site 86 (Report). SNN2902.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Yardley Gobion (Photographs). SNN114339.

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Nov 16 2022 12:49PM