An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-houses in Eastern EnglandThis fourth volume completes the series of inventories on Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-houses carried out by the RCHME - Central England (published 1986), South-west England (1991), Northern England (1994). This volume focuses on the east of England from the Channel to the Humber and encompasses the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, Essex, Greater London, Hertfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, Kent, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey and Sussex. Each entry includes a short history and description of the building, many with illustrations or photographs. |
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19th century altered Baptist chapel Baptist church Bath stone brick walls brick with hipped brick with stone brickwork building burial-ground central doorway central entrance chapel built chapel was built columns Congregational chapel Congregational Church demolished early 19th century East Sussex enlarged erected flanking former chapel Former CONGREGATIONAL Former PRIMITIVE METHODIST Former WESLEYAN formerly free Gothic front of three front wall gabled front gallery around three gault brick Gothic style Guestwick headstones High Street hipped roof hipped slate roof inscribed Inscription interior James Fenton John Lane late 19th century Mearns meeting-house Monuments octagonal original pair panelled pantiled Particular Baptist pastor pilasters platband porch Presbyterian present chapel pulpit rear rebuilt red brick refitted rendered Road TQ round-arched windows sash windows side walls spire stock brick stone dressings Street TL STRICT BAPTIST Sunday-school three bays three sides three-bay front tiers of windows timber-framed Unitarian vestry Wesleyan chapel wife