NHER 31187 (Monument record) - Filby Dissenters Chapel

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Summary

This is the site of an early Dissenters chapel, which was built in about 1705. The chapel was damaged by a bomb in 1940, and demolished.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG41SE
Civil Parish FILBY, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Map

Unitarian Chapel 1705 to about 1940.
Chapel (site of), graveyard with gravestones cleared and tidied 1991 to 1992, walls and floor revealed by limited excavation.
The chapel was badly damaged by a bomb in 1940, and subsequently demolished.
See (S1) and (S2).
D. Gurney (NLA) 20 February 1995.

In the later 19th century the chapel was rebuilt in a cheaper and smaller form on the eastern third of the original site, utilising some of the foundations and possibly some of the walling.
See (S3) for further details, including a floor plan and details of monuments.
M. Langham-Lopez (HES), 19 September 2012.

  • --- Article in Serial: Tooke, C.. 1991. Filby Unitarian Chapel. CBA Group VI Bulletin. No 35 pp 58-60.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Unpublished Report: Tooke, C. and Saul, J. 1997. Filby Dissenters Chapel 1705-1940.
  • <S2> Article in Serial: Tooke, C.. 1995. Filby Unitarian Chapel.. Yarmouth Archaeology. pp 44ff.
  • <S3> Monograph: Stell, C. 2002. Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-houses in Eastern England. pp 239-240.

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Record last edited

Jan 31 2013 3:04PM

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