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Listed Building - Grade II
“At the Chapel” is a restaurant, bar, club, bakery and wine shop created in a Grade 2 Listed Congregational Chapel in Bruton, Somerset. The building has a simple robust architecture and a history of public use that is well suited to its new function and capitalises on these inherent characteristics to create a venue with a great sense of style and place. Materials are limited to reclaimed oak, local Doulton stone, white painted plaster and simple black iron fittings to create a very effective backdrop to the complexity, richness and variety of the local produce and cuisine on offer. As the Guardian restaurant critic wrote: “it was as close to a religious experience as this rampant atheist is ever likely to have in a house of the Lord”. Rooms “At the Chapel” was a project to add 10 letting rooms to the highly acclaimed restaurant, bar and bakery operation established a few years earlier within a Grade 2 Listed Congregational Chapel in Bruton, Somerset. The rooms range from small double rooms for regular business travellers to large family suites for holidays and wedding parties and are all unique, their form being derived from variety of spaces offered by the historic architecture. All rooms however are uniformly stylish and lavishly fitted in a bold contemporary style that fits well with the simple robust character of the medieval building.