Description

THORNTON RUST VILLAGE STREET
SD 98 NE
(north side)
14/176 Havenhurst
25.3.69
- II
Calvinist chapel and school, now house. Dated 1827. Rubble, stone slate
roof. 2½ storeys, 2 first-floor windows. Quoins. On ground floor, to
left, C20 canted bay window; to right, C20 4-light casement window. First
floor: 3-light casements. Above, in centre, panel inscribed "THIS CALVINIST
CHAPEL and SCHOOL ROOM were ENDOWED and ERECTED By JOHN TOMLINSON of this
place AD 1827" with long stepped hood-mould. Ashlar copings. End stacks.
Rear elevation, modern casement windows and, above, the heads of 2 round-
headed windows with imposts and keystones. End entry on right return. The
schoolroom was on the ground floor, and the chapel above. The minister
acted as schoolmaster. One of the few Calvinist chapels still surviving in
England. VCH i, p 214.

Listing NGR: SD9745188831

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584510

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