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Railyard Methodist Chapel

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Railyard Methodist Chapel
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Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Methodist chapel, c.1850, with single-bay single-storey recessed porch to right. In use, 1899. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered walls. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-limestone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows having overlights. Square-headed door opening with tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds with rubble stone boundary wall to forecourt having rubble stone vertical coping, rubble stone piers having cut-stone capping, and iron double gates.
A pleasant small-scale chapel representing an important element of the architectural heritage on account of the associations with the Methodist community in the locality possibly having origins in immigrant Welsh miners imported to work the nearby Wandesford (Wandesforde) Castlecomer coal mines. Although having fallen into disuse the survival of the essential composition attributes together with substantial quantities of the historic fabric maintains the integrity of the chapel in the landscape.

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