Peculiar Peoples Chapel (EHER 38696)

The first chapel built by the Peculiar People, dated 1877. Now converted to house.

August 1986. Grade II listed. A red brick chapel with gault brick dressings and grey slate roof, dated 1877. It is a small, simple, single-storey chapel, as required by this religious sect. The windows are of Gothic design with glazing bars and centre mullions. There are double vertically boarded doors with ornamental strap hinges. This is the first chapel built by the Peculiar People. This and Tillingham (EHER 38743) are the only known chapels to survive intact architecturally. The sect was founded as a grass roots revivalist movement during the 1850s; they were respected for agricultural and social reforms but belief only in natural healing was a cause of friction when Smallpox vaccination etc., became popular. It has been converted to a house. <1> NRHE data transfer: See also <2>. NRHE summary description: Former Church of Peculiar People, built 1877. Red brick, gault brick dressings. Grey slate roof. A small simple chapel as required by this religious sect, single storeyed, the lugged quoins, 2 Gothic windows and central doors with gault header and stretcher decoration. Gault band to gable coping. The windows with glazing bars and centre mullions forming Gothic heads. Double vertically boarded doors with ornamental strap hinges and escutcheon plate and handle. Matching windows to returns with pilasters between. This is the first chapel built by the Peculiar People. This and Tillingham are the only known chapels to survive intact architecturally. Now converted to a house. Note: No source is provided by NRHE for this information but it is probably from <1>.