Description

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE CHURCH STREET
829-1/9/52 (North side)
13/10/74 No.19
Former Old Independent Chapel
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET
No.19
Auction Rooms)

II

Chapel, now subdivided as printing works and offices. 1778,
altered mid C19. Dark red brick with both stone dressings and
quoins, old tiled roofs, hipped. 2 span at rear, but with
single hip roof at front, and bands of fish-scale tiles. Brick
dentil cornice.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, ground floor has central entrance with
mid C19 Neo-Norman arched surround with colonnettes and zig
zag ornament. Above is stone panel, C19, with recessed
quartrefoil bearing date of original construction, 1778.
Arched windows with glazing bars and quoin surrounds, and zig
zag ornament to intrados, left and right of entrance, 3
similar windows on first floor. Unaltered east and west
elevations have tall sash windows, with glazing bars beneath
segmental arches; at rear there are 2 arched windows, with
Gothic tracery.
INTERIOR: now altered.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as Independent Chapel, first Minister,
William Goodwin, a radical writer, who became father-in-law to
the poet Shelley. Front of building altered after 1859, in
response to rebuilding of High Street Congregational Church in
Leaside (qv). The Old Independent Chapel closed in 1918, and
was subsequently used as a church hall, Masonic Hall, United
Services Club, auction room and printing works.
(Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-:
124-5; Lavender S: Churches, Chapels and Faiths of Ware: Ware:
1989-: 39; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N (rev. Cherry
B): Hertfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1977-: 381; Ware Tithe Map:
1845-; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey
Department: 1851-).

Listing NGR: TL3576414472

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26516255

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Recommended Books

• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)