Listed Building record TR 34 SW 717 - UNITARIAN CHURCH AND VESTRY ADJOINING, DOVER

Unitarian Church and Vestry adjoining, Adrian Street, Dover; GII Listed Building. Dated 1819. Architect Thomas Read. An irregular octagon in shape. 2 storeys yellow brick with 4 brick pilasters, Slate roof and wide bracket cornice. The front elevation has a pediment set in brick arcading with a round window in its tympanum, 1 large Venetian window under tile pediment and the other windows are round-headed sashes. Single round-headed doorcase approached up a flight of steps having a cast iron handrail. Adjoining to the north side is a building of 2 storeys and 1 window which contains the Vestry. (1)

The church is shown in this location on historic maps dating to the last decades of the 19th and early 20th century. (2-6)

The GIS polygon associated with this record does not represent the full extent or curtilage of the listed building but merely defines the outline of the building. For further information on the extent of the listed building please contact Dover District Council.

Unitarian chapel erected in 1819-20 to the design of Thomas Reed, Government surveyor of the Kentish coast. The plan is an elongated octagon with walls of gault and stock brick and a hipped and slated roof. The principal front faces east and has plain paired pilasters below a pediment. (7)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> C. E. Goad, 1905, Kent Fire insurance plans sheets 1-7 (Map). SKE51666.

<3> Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 1st edition 1862-1875): Landmark Epoch 1 (Map). SKE30964.

<4> Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 2nd Edition, 1897-1900): Landmark Epoch 2 (Map). SKE30965.

<5> Landmark, 1907-1923, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 3rd Edition, 1907-1923): Landmark Epoch 3 (Map). SKE30966.

<6> Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 4th Edition, 1929-1952): Landmark Epoch 4 (Map). SKE30967.

<7> Christopher Stell, 2002, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Eastern England (Bibliographic reference). SKE58544.