Jireh Baptist Church
JIREH BAPTIST CHURCH, BOOT WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022632
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Jireh Baptist Church
- Statutory Address:
- JIREH BAPTIST CHURCH, BOOT WAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022632
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1995
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Jireh Baptist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- JIREH BAPTIST CHURCH, BOOT WAY
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- JIREH BAPTIST CHURCH, BOOT WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 84240 32491
Details
BURNLEY
SD8432SW BOOT WAY 906-1/20/23 (North side) 02/08/95 Jireh Baptist Church (Formerly Listed as: BOOT WAY Jireh Chapel)
II
Baptist chapel. Dated 1853 over doorway; altered. Coursed rock-faced sandstone rubble, slate roof. Small rectangular building at right-angles to the street. Single storey, a 2-window gabled facade, symmetrical, with a plinth and a pedimental gable; a tall central doorway with altered double doors (up one step) and a plain overlight, and a plain surround with a moulded cornice on large fluted consoles; a rectangular plaque above the doorway inscribed: JIREH/ ERECTED A.D./ MDCCCLIII tall segmental-headed windows which have eared architraves and altered glazing; and in the pediment an octagonal stone plaque with radial openings (ventilator). The left return side has 2 tall square-headed windows with altered glazing. INTERIOR not accessible, but reported by estate agent to be just a shell. HISTORY: built by the Strict and Particular Baptists or Gadsbyites, a sect found only in this area.
Listing NGR: SD8424032491
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467003
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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