Mariners Chapel - Gloucester Docks, UK
N 51° 51.745 W 002° 15.118
30U E 551509 N 5746000
This small chapel is located amongst the warehouses of Gloucester Docks and looks slightly out of place even though the warehouses are mainly used for other purposes these days. The bell tower is at the south eastern end of the chapel.
Waymark Code: WMKEZ7
Location: Southern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/03/2014
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The bellcote has a single bell that can be seen through the opening where it is located.
As mentioned, the building is Garde II listed with the entry at the English Heritage website telling us:
Chapel. 1848-9. By John Jaques for a committee managing funds obtained from subscriptions and private benefactions to provide a Church of England extra parochial chapel to minister to sailors and dock workers. Squared rubble in diminishing courses and ashlar details, plain clay tile roof with bands of fishtail tiles. Early Pointed style. Single cell of five bays with ritual orientation reversed.
EXTERIOR: offset ashlar plinths, slightly setback buttresses with offsets at the angles and similar but slightly shorter buttresses defining each bay, coped gables with kneelers at either end and on the apex of the east (entry) gable a gabled bellcote with a single bell in the arched opening. In the east wall an arched doorway with moulded jambs flanked on either side by a tall lancet and a pair of shorter lancets above, all with trefoil heads; a small trefoil light in the upper part of the gable. In each bay of the side walls a single lancet, in the west wall three stepped lancets with trefoil tracery heads, small trefoil light in upper part of the gable.