Building record 1003100000 - CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, NASH ROAD

Grade II. Congregational chapel. 1821, converted from C18 barn. Brick with some vitreous headers, plain plinth, moulded brick eaves. Old tile roof. N Front has 3 barred wooden windows with pointed arched heads, and blocked ventilation slits. Double panelled doors between left-hand windows have fine wooden porch with entablature hood on slender Doric columns and pilasters. W end has 3 similar pointed windows and blocked entablature hood on slender Doric columns and pilasters. W end has 2 similar pointed windows and blocked rectangular fanlight and wooden lintel, small C20 casement to right and 3-light casement above with leaded outer panes. Royal Exchange fire insurance plaque above upper window. Small outhouse attached to SE corner is not of special interest. Interior has some original fittings, including gallery on slender wooden Doric columns at E end (B1).
The RCHME's 'Chapels and Meeting Houses' inventory of 1986 notes that a Sunday School comenced in 1819 by John Adey of Winslow led to the formation of an adult congregation for which a barn was fitted up as 'a school house and place of worship'. The chapel was registered on 24 March 1821 and opened on the 10 April 1821. A gallery was added two years later and a church formed on 13 February 1823 with John Adey being formalised as the pastor in 1824. The original barn entrances remains visible in the N and S walls. The roof is supported by two trusses with double collarbeams and braces and clasped purlins. The interior retains its original seating with shaped ends to open benches (B2).