Cookham Rise Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Berkshire In 1940 Cookham Rise Wesleyan Methodist Chapel seated 207 people in pews. There was a school hall and two other rooms. This is a quite remarkable building. The prominent bargeboard and the very unusual tower reflect current trends in architecture but the buttresses and the lancet window in the tower suggest that the architect had not quite thrown off the tyranny of the Gothic Source John Rylands Library University of Manchester DDPD1Methodist Accommodation returns, 1940/110110 Site visit 7.10.2015
By G W Oxley (08/01/2020)
Cookham Rise Chapel was erected in 1904-5 (Buildings of England, Berkshire, p253)
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Cookham Rise Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Berkshire
In 1940 Cookham Rise Wesleyan Methodist Chapel seated 207 people in pews. There was a school hall and two other rooms.
This is a quite remarkable building. The prominent bargeboard and the very unusual tower reflect current trends in architecture but the buttresses and the lancet window in the tower suggest that the architect had not quite thrown off the tyranny of the Gothic
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John Rylands Library University of Manchester DDPD1Methodist Accommodation returns, 1940/110110
Site visit 7.10.2015
Cookham Rise Chapel was erected in 1904-5 (Buildings of England, Berkshire, p253)
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