Description

PAIGNTON

SX8861 CECIL ROAD
1947-1/4/90 (East side)
10/01/75 Southfield Methodist Church and
Chapel House
(Formerly Listed as:
CECIL ROAD
Bible Christian Chapel and Chapel
House)

GV II

Independent chapel of 1823 and caretaker's house of c1830s.
Bible Christian chapel since 1884, alterations of 1901
(Pevsner).
MATERIALS: Local red breccia rubble, front elevation and
chapel house rendered. Slate roofs, chapel roof hipped at ends
with false gable to front.
PLAN: Rectangular plan to 2-bay chapel, entrance front to
Southfield Road, end backing on to Colley End Road.
Double-depth chapel house adjoins at NE side and projects to
the front.
EXTERIOR: 3-bay front elevation to chapel with 1901 narthex
across front. Deep eaves and verges on paired brackets.
Chapel in Gothic style has central 3-light window with
intersecting tracery flanked by taller similar windows, all
with plain stuccoed bands round the heads of the windows. Band
of incised lettering 'Bible Christian Chapel' over centre
window. Narthex has very shallow central porch with tall gable
with cross finial, arched doorway with hoodmould and plank
door. Porch flanked by trefoil-headed one-light timber windows
with hoodmoulds. Outer bays of narthex are gabled with
bargeboards and roundel windows with plain proud architraves.
Left return and rear wall of chapel has 2 tall arched windows
with Y tracery.
Chapel House is 3 storeys with a 2-window front. Deep eaves on
paired moulded brackets. Recessed C20 front door to right,
similar front door to right return. Windows glazed with C20
small-pane sashes including a tripartite sash on the ground
floor of the front elevation.
INTERIOR: Plain ceiling with round ventilation grilles.
Brattished timber frontal to preaching gallery has blind
arches with keyblocks. C19 benches with shaped ends. C19 white
marble wall monuments, the earliest dating from c1849.
HISTORY: Noted by Pevsner as the oldest Nonconformist chapel
in the area.
(Buildings of England: Cherry B and Pevsner N: Devon: London:
1952-1989: 839).

Listing NGR: SX8849761038

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502727

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)