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Latitude: 51.0959 / 51°5'45"N
Longitude: 0.5361 / 0°32'9"E
OS Eastings: 577678
OS Northings: 136008
OS Grid: TQ776360
Mapcode National: GBR PTC.BC4
Mapcode Global: FRA D607.2PX
Plus Code: 9F323GWP+8C
Entry Name: Providence Chapel
Listing Date: 9 June 1967
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1084808
English Heritage Legacy ID: 169090
ID on this website: 101084808
Location: Cranbrook, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN17
County: Kent
District: Tunbridge Wells
Civil Parish: Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
Built-Up Area: Cranbrook
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Tagged with: Chapel
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TQ 7736 SE
10/99
20.6.67
CRANBROOK
STONE STREET
(west side)
Providence Chapel
II*
Presbyterian chapel. 1795, 1803, 1808, 1818 and 1828 with late C19 alterations.
Timber-framed and weatherboarded with slate roofs, hidden by parapet to front.
Weatherboarded to front on first floor with masonry grooving on wooden
supports of which one column has a Doric capital. The rest renewed or altered.
Polygonal front of 7 faces on first floor. The central five with tall round-
headed sashes with glazing bars in open boxes, the centre window being false.
Ground floor to rear has evidence of two different builds of brick work.
Staircases to chapel against westernmost bay of polygonal front and against
east wall, which continues to gallery. INTERIOR: Baptisting under polygonal
front in centre of floor in front of pulpit, (1914). Vestries also on ground
floor. Chapel has flat plaster ceiling with ceiling beams showing stages
of enlargement. South and west galleries with reeded edges to panels
separated by reeded pilasters, all supported on columns, now marbled. Pulpit
with 5-sided front and applied reeded mouldings to panels, supported on two
marbled fluted columns. Seating, of early C19, benches with backs filled
later. See B.O.E., W Kent, P237.
Listing NGR: TQ7767836008
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