Description

DENT

SD7087 THE LANING, Dent Town
162-1/24/205 (South side (off))
14/06/84 Wesleyan Chapel

GV II

Wesleyan chapel, now United Reformed church. Dated 1834. Thin
watershot coursed rubble with large quoins, all white-washed;
graduated blue slate roof with 2 courses of stone slate at the
eaves. Rectangular single-cell building on east-west axis.
The south front has 2 round-headed 6-pane windows with
Y-tracery in the heads, and in the middle of the wall between
them a datestone lettered "WESLEYAN / 1834 / CHAPEL". The rear
has similar windows. The west gable wall has a tall
round-headed opening containing a square headed doorway with a
slab lintel and a round-headed window immediately above this,
with glazing bars and a stone slate drip-band.
INTERIOR: internal porch; pitch-pine dado and pulpit (benches
removed); moulded plaster cornice; ceiling with moulded
plaster roundel and 4 moulded plaster diamonds from which
globular electric lamps hang on chains.
Forms group with High Laning Farmhouse to the south (qv).

Listing NGR: SD7033987076

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663844

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)