Description

BILSDALE MIDCABLE CHOP GATE SE 59 NE 16/13 Methodist Chapel and attached schoolroom II GV

Chapel dated 1878 with additions and alterations probably of the 1890s. Coursed squared tooled sandstone with chamfered plinth and quoins. Schoolroom finely-coursed stone with ashlar porch. Welsh slate roof with stone ridge, copings and kneelers. Gothic style. Gabled entrance front has central ledged oak door with fanlight. Y-traceried recessed round-arched windows with cut voussoirs. On left return 2 similar windows. Inserted Perpendicular-style window on rear elevation and small castellated bell-tower with basement door. Right return shows added schoolroom with extruded porch. Caernarvon-arched doorway, with ledged oak door, and Perpendicular- style windows. Interior plastered, with ribbed boarded ceiling. Wide pointed stone arch to schoolroom on right. Numbered benches, raised up shallow steps at back. Choir benches at right also raised. Carved pulpit at left, probably circa 1900. Communion table and rail between. Box organ at right in front of choir: "Carson's Patent - The Positive Organ". East end woodwork of good quality, but strange lectern with human feet. Contemporary glass with small decorative panels in schoolroom.

Listing NGR: SE5589299820

External Links

• Wikidata Q26444165

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