I was websurfing and put in build a small....to get here.:-/I am wondering if one of the designs could be altered to make a small chapel. Every site on the internet seems to want to build a 500-6000 person chapel. I just want a small one.3-20 people just a place of meditation(more like 3-7 including me). I love the designs and contest enterances .Any ideas???
Thanks
It's funny you brought this up because I always thought the Builders Cottage looked like small church. How much time do you have to get it up? Will you use the building for anything else? I would recomend buying the Big Enchilada plans. I have them myself. It has the plans to build the builders cottage and two other smaller buildings.
First thing that came to mind for me was this.....
http://www.jshow.com/y2k/listings/33.html
Which is part of the 14'x24' Little House with a loft http://www.jshow.com/y2k/listings/23.html which is included in the Little House Plans Kit w/ Bonus Tools located at http://www.jshow.com/y2k/listings/29.html
Leave out the loft and you should be good. I think you could easily hold 20-30 people in it.
I once looked at a house that was for sale and it had a wonderful chapel in the back garden. The house had been used as a halfway house for a youth group and they had converted what had been a simple 20x24 foot garage into the chapel. The garage door opening had been narrowed and fitted with a pair of beautiful old double doors. Over the doors they had this wonderful molded scupture of a large hand reaching out for several smaller hands. Each side wall had 3 small square barn sash. The rear wall had a wide niche built inside with a square barn sash on each side. The exterior was sided with T1-11 with 5/4 corner boards and cornice and window and door trim. Inside the first six feet was under a little loft and made a little vestibule with simple coat pegs on either side. The interior was all done in rough stucco plaster. The floors were terracotta tile and down each side wall was a stucco banco bench with cushions. In the end niche there was a small altar table and a crucifix. There were two long skylights and subtle pin-lights in the ceiling. It was all very simple and extremely peaceful. It was the most marvelous space and I would have loved to own the house and chapel, but someone beat my bid. Im sure you could do a similar project using any of John's basic plans as a starting point. If 20x24 seems too big, you could do a simple 10x14 building with a steep peak roof and bancos down both sides. A big wide door on one end and a tall wide window on the other would be sufficient. Some simple sconce lighting would create a small peaceful space. Sounds like a nice project to me if you have a nice setting for it. :)
Looks like lots of good ideas - several ways to do it. :)
As was mentioned the Builders Cottage (part of the Enchilada set: http://www.countryplans.com/cottage1.html) has the look of a small chapel.
The Builder's Cottage popped into my mind as I was reading the post.... Great minds think alike. :)
I will drop in this little design done by Mark Chenail and let him comment...
:DYou guys rock! I have so many ideas now!! I have a while before building because the county says I need a lager piece of land(don't you love the permit department). I need a builder( I can't touch tools they hate me),But I can get the plans and start dreaming....only now I have to choose.
Thanks John for posting the design I sent you. I couldnt get my photosite to work yesterday. I guess I was more than usually technically challenged yesterday. The design pretty much speaks for itself. It should accommodate 14-18 seated people with a generous middle aisle. It wouldnt be hard to expand it for a larger group.
Easily built with off the shelf materials. Feel free to make comments or to use the basic idea.
If Christian, then buy or make a cupola and stick on top of roof near the front entryway--even add a cross weathervane on top--that'd be your steeple. (If a real-type cupola, you could stick a bell in there.)
Take up stained glass classes and make the windows.
Google for old church furniture (pews, etc.).
Google for images of small churches/chapels.
For a different twist, get a glass greenhouse with a gable roof--same general shape as photo above. Basically a small version of the Wayfarers Chapel in http://www.wayfarerschapel.org/. The more expensive greenhouses have wood beams. Wouldn't work for all climates though.
To me this pink house looks like a chapel...
Mike...
QuoteTo me this pink house looks like a chapel...
Mike...
I agree.
How about this one!
I think it's in Georgia. Using the car as a scale, must be small but the steep pitch to the roof and the steeple make it seem very grand, don't you think?
judy
OK, this topic has the song going around in my head.
My mother's baby sister got married there. From a very long ago memory, it would cheerfully hold 50 or more people--it had better if they want to get a full-time pastor.
So, here is, the Little Brown Church in the Vale:
http://www.littlebrownchurch.org/church_photo.cfm
Song? "you saw me crying in the cha-a-a-a-pel, those tears I shed were tears of jo-y-y-y-y"
All these old songs and I'm still stuck on The Little Brown Shack Out Back. :-/
would that be the "love shack" Glenn?