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9 <br /> The interior of the original chapel is simply Finished, looking much as it did when <br /> originally constructed, with vertical beaded board wainscoting around the entire room <br /> and drywall above. The ceiling is also finished with plain drywall having wood molding <br /> strips applied over the joints between large panels. Portions of the ceiling slope for short <br /> span above each side, where it is applied to the undersides of the rafters of the main roof. <br /> All doors and windows have plain board trim. The existing oak pews date from the late <br /> 20'h century. The stained glass panels are all the work of the same maker and follow a <br /> unified design, with rectangular opaque panes surrounded by three bands of colored glass <br /> and topped by lancet arched panels containing red crosses. The upper portion of each <br /> window features a circular panel depicting a biblical scene, with a memorial panel across <br /> the bottom. The paired wood front doors are presently of a six-panel configuration; these <br /> replaced the original five-panel paired doors shown in the 1977 exterior photo of the <br /> church (]photo 7). <br /> At the west encs of the church, the interior was expanded with the addition in the 1980s of <br /> a small chancel extending from the west end of the original sanctuary, providing more <br /> space for a piano and several choir pews. The addition, which extends to the west of the <br /> original structure, also houses a small meeting room with an accessible entrance at the <br /> south side of the chancel, with a larger kitchen/dining room located along the north side. <br /> Both connect to the original chapel through doors flanking the chancel. The existing altar <br /> platform with its simple railing dates from the 1940s. <br /> Site of Current Chapel (Map 2; Photos 1 and 6, Survey 2), <br /> The two-acre church site, located on the west side of Dimmock's Mill Road, is open and <br /> grassy along the road frontage with a stand of mixed hardwoods extending along the rear <br /> or west half of the lot. The chapel is sited near the road, approximately mid-way between <br /> the north and south property lines. There is a modern asphalt paved parking lot located <br /> south of the chapel, providing spaces for approximately twenty cars. The modern <br /> cemetery is centered in the cleared grassy area to the north of the chapel. There are 20-25 <br /> graves marked by a combination of modern granite gravestones and funeral parlor <br /> markers, dating from 1956 through 2014. These site features are shown in more detail in <br /> Survey 2, which depicts the 1996 property survey plat.' <br /> Orange County Plat Book 76,page 71, 1996. <br /> 3 <br />