Baptist Chapel
BAPTIST CHAPEL, CARPENTERS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1036507
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL, CARPENTERS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1036507
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL, CARPENTERS LANE
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:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL, CARPENTERS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bratton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 91387 52553
Details
BRATTON CARPENTERS LANE ST 9152 (north side) 11/6 Baptist Chapel 11.9.68 GV II* Baptist chapel. 1734 with additions early C19 and mid C19. Flemish bond brick, stone slate hipped roof to chapel, tiled hipped roofs to flanking schoolrooms, brick stacks with toothed bands. Single storey chapel with gallery, 2-storey schoolrooms. Central round-arched 8-panelled door in bolection-moulded architrave with keystone and imposts, semi-circular stone hood, 12-pane round- arched sash with keystone and imposts either side, keyed rose window over and square sundial over door, moulded stone eaves and plain stone pilasters. Schoolrooms to either side have 4-panelled or 6-panelled doors, one 12-pane sash to first floor. Left return has three sashes to ground and first floor, datestone 1858. Right return has two sashes to both floors. Rear of chapel has two round-arched 12-pane windows and keyed rose window over, dentil brick eaves cornice, extension of rear recorded by 1786 datestone to first floor. Rear of schoolrooms have sashes. Interior of chapel has gallery of 1807 on three sides with recessed panelling, on octagonal wooden columns, plaster ceiling cornice, box pews to ground floor and gallery, reading desk on raised dais at north end, doors with 4 fielded panels, marble fireplace in west schoolroom first floor. Baptists had been meeting in Erlestoke since 1662 and in Bratton since 1701, before this chapel was built by subscription. (History of the Baptist Church, 1662-1962)
Listing NGR: ST9138752553
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313643
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
History of the Baptist Church 1662-1962, ()
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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