FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO EAST OF MARTYRS' COTTAGES
FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO EAST OF MARTYRS' COTTAGES, DORCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119849
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO EAST OF MARTYRS' COTTAGES
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO EAST OF MARTYRS' COTTAGES, DORCHESTER ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-02-05
- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119849
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO EAST OF MARTYRS' COTTAGES
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO EAST OF MARTYRS' COTTAGES, DORCHESTER ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO EAST OF MARTYRS' COTTAGES, DORCHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burleston and Tolpuddle
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 79517 94410
Details
The following building shall be added to the list
TOLPUDDLE DORCHESTER ROAD
SY 7994 (north side)
15/200 Former Methodist Chapel,
to east of Martyrs'
Cottages
GV II*
Former Methodist Chapel, now store. 1818 (Local Methodist Society Records);
altered. Cob on plinth of brick with some flint; brick dressings; double Roman
tile roof. One storey with inserted loft; gable-end to road, 1 x 2 bays. Road-
side gable: former central doorway bricked-up and with later window; inserted
doorway above with board door; apex of gable weatherboarded; projecting ends of
purlins. Rear: bricked-up short pointed-arched window; gable apex weather-
boarded. Left return: at left end, bricked-up doorway with segmental header-
brick arch. Right return: inserted central stable door; on left a bricked-up
segmental header-brick-arched window. Interior: inserted brick and cobble cow-
house floor and loft; king-post roof trusses with through purlins supported at
trusses by long braces rising from walls and having short ties to feet of
principal rafters; roof underdrawn with lath and plaster (mostly collapsed). In
state of disrepair at time of inspection. Five of the six Tolpuddle Martyrs
were Methodists and it is presumed that they worshipped in this building.
Listing NGR: SY7951794410
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106409
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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Historic England Communications Team
In the summer of 2023, Tolpuddle Old Chapel reopened after a nine-year regeneration project.
The Old Chapel was built in 1818 and used for worship by four of the six men who were to become famous as the Tolpuddle Martyrs: George Loveless, James Loveless, John Standfield, and Thomas Standfield. It is possible that some of them were involved in the original build.
The Tolpuddle Old Chapel Trust (TOCT) acquired the building in 2015 and began planning its repair and reuse. Supported by grants from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Historic England, work began in November 2021.
Before: Image taken in 2003, four years after the building had been placed on the Heritage at Risk Register. © Mr Duncan Miller, sourced from the Historic England Archive
After: This view shows the restored exterior of the former Methodist chapel, built in around 1818, which was the meeting place of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. © Historic England Archive, DP435257.
David Lovell
Tolpuddle, 31/08/2020
Lucy Parry