Belstone Old Zion Chapel (1841)

Walpole, C. + Walpole, M.,  2002,  The Book of Belstone. Words and Images from a Dartmoor Village(Monograph). SDV357830.
Reference to Methodist preaching in Belstone in the early 19th century and the village appears on the Okehampton Circuit Chapel Account Books in 1837. This chapel was built in 1841 by another branch of non-conformists (the Calvanistic Independent Dissenters) popular in Belstone at the time. By 1847 it was the Wesleyans who were preaching in the chapel.
From 1856 the building was used as a Sunday school and in the early 1900s for evening classes. By the 1920s the chapel was brought from what was now the Congregational Union and from 1937 it was operated as the post office.
Google,  2015,  Google Streetview (Website). SDV357604.
Image of the old chapel shows an attractive stone-built structure with a central arched door with two tall arched windows set either side. A third, central window has been blocked up. A sign on the frontage reads 'Telegraph Office' and the wall-mounted post box is visible, as well as a telephone box set outside. Looking back at the western rendered face of the building, there is a row of three arched windows which have been partly blocked in at the top sections, leaving three regular sized windows and a rear chimney stack.
Ordnance Survey,  2015,  MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV357601.

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