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© Mr John H. Sparkes
IoE Number:
264235
Location:
FORMER UNITED REFORM CHURCH, ST JAMES'S STREET (east side)
SOUTH PETHERTON, SOUTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr John H. Sparkes
Date Photographed:
20 March 2003
Date listed:
18 February 1988
Date of last amendment:
18 February 1988
Grade
II
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SOUTH PETHERTON CP ST JAMES'S STREET (East end)
ST4316
7/150
Former United Reform Church
GV II
Former church, now used as public hall. 1863. Ham stone, cut, squared and boasted, ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof
to steep pitch between coped gables with finials. Single-storey, 6 bays x 3 bays. West gable front of 3 bays, with
pairs of corner buttresses and between-bay buttresses, all with finials, the inner pair having steeplets as finials: to
bays 1 and 3 cusped lancet windows, and to bay 2 a 5-light Decorated style traceried window without label, rather thin
tracery, above which is set a trefoil louvred vent; below is a pointed-arched doorway protected by open pitched-roof
porch with C14 style outer archway with label. Side elevations have corner and bay buttresses; 2-light
simple-tranceried windows, that to western bay having its cill at springing level, with pitched roofed gabled dormers
over each window. Single-bay gabled extension to east end, set lower, with further extension against east side of this,
having a cusped lancet window and pointed arched doorway, with trefoil light over. Interior not accessible - in process
of conversion into public hall in April 1986, apparently with very little alteration to interior. Presbytrian meetings
began in South Petherton about 1663. A chapel was built on part of the present site in 1775. (VCH, Vol III, 1974).