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Smarber Hall Chapel
Hob Uid: 595356
Location : North Yorkshire Richmondshire Melbecks
Grid Ref : SD9728097565
Summary : Now ruined chapel with associated enclosures. Circa 1690 Lord Wharton transformed part of Smarber Hall, his shooting lodge, into a chapel. It closed in 1809, when a new chapel was built at Low Row. The site is surrounded by a drystone wall and on the east side by a stone barn of 17th century date, which was probably a cottage attached to the former meeting house. Traces of wall plaster remain internally in the barn together with evidence of earlier fenestration. The north wall of the enclosure also retains traces of wall plaster and the splayed jamb of a window at the east end.
More information : Site derived from OS 1st edition map , 1:10,000 . 1857 "Smarber Chapel" (1) Documented. (2) "Burial Ground (disused)" OS map 1:10,000. 1914. (3) "Swaledale, formerly Smarber Hall Chapel, now Low Row chapel - Independent - founded 1662 Daniel Davies , baptisms 1766-1837" [NB burials 1822-1835] (4)

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Source details : OS 6" 1st ed. Yorks 51 1857
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Source details : Lists of Non-parochial Registers and Records 1859. The Yorkshire County Magazine. p160. < http://www.mocavo.com/Yorkshire-County-Magazine-Volume-Ii/314937/174#174 > [accessed 06-MAY-2015]
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : C17
Monument End Date : 1699
Monument Start Date : 1600
Monument Type : Enclosure, Barn
Evidence : Extant Building

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Extant 1790
Monument End Date : 1690
Monument Start Date : 1690
Monument Type : Hunting Lodge
Evidence : Ruined Building

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Converted 1690
Monument End Date : 1690
Monument Start Date : 1690
Monument Type : Nonconformist Chapel
Evidence : Ruined Building

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Closed 1809
Monument End Date : 1809
Monument Start Date : 1809
Monument Type : Presbyterian Chapel
Evidence : Ruined Building

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SD 99 NE 47
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