Building record 0979500000 - Chesham Congregational Chapel (United Reformed Church)

Summary

Late nineteenth century Congregational chapel built in 1885-6, on the site of an earlier chapel built in 1724

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Type and Period (2)

  • CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL (Built 1885-1886, 19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL (Built 1724, 18th Century to 19th Century - 1724 AD to 1885 AD?)

Description

A new meeting house was built 1724, and replaced by the present Gothic building of flint with brick and stone dressings 1885-6 (more detail and photo)(B1).
United Reformed Church, Broadway, 1885-6 by W G Habershon and Fawckner. Early English with a sharp gable and brick angle tourelles poised like rockets (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC12553 Bibliographic reference: Christopher Stell (RCHME). 1986. Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-houses: Buckinghamshire. p13.
  • <2>SBC19664 Bibliographic reference: Nikolaus Pevsner & Elizabeth Williamson. 1994. The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire. p239.

Location

Grid reference SP 96022 01749 (point)
Civil Parish CHESHAM, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Sep 14 2020 12:06AM

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