THE SOUTH DEVON 

 MONTHLY MUSEUM. 



PLYMOUTH, MARCH 1st, 1835. 

 No. 27.] Price Sixpence. [Vol. V. 



ST. PAUUS CHAPEL, STONEHOUSE. 



The inhabitants of Stonehouse, a town daily increas- 

 ing in population and importance, had long been 

 greatly inconvenienced for want of church-room. 

 The parochial chapel does not furnish accommodation 

 for more than one eighth of the parishioners, while 

 there is a lamentably undue proportion of free sittings 

 for the poor. His Majesty's Commissioners there- 

 fore determined to erect a chapel capable of contain- 

 ing nearly one thousand persons within the precincts 

 of the parish. A spot of ground, at the west end of 

 Durnford Street, having been munificently granted 

 by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, the 

 structure, of which we give an engraving, was built 

 thereupon, at an expense not exceedilig £3,000, from 

 designs furnished by J. Foulston, Esq., the commis- 

 sioners' architect. It has been thought that the 

 objects for which the chapel was erected would have 

 been better promoted by a more central site than the 

 present, but it should be remembered that, at the 

 time when the spot was fixed upon, a much more 

 rapid increase of buildings, in the immediate neigh- 

 bourhood, was contemplated than has since taken 

 place. 



The chapel, the most pleasing view of which is 



from the Mill-bay road to Plymouth, is in the early 



Enghsh style, with the principal entrance at the west 



end, under a tower surmounted by four lofty pinna- 



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