The Baptist Chapel
THE BAPTIST CHAPEL, CHAPEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1039887
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- THE BAPTIST CHAPEL, CHAPEL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1039887
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BAPTIST CHAPEL, CHAPEL 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:
- THE BAPTIST CHAPEL, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Clipston
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 70907 81835
Details
CLIPSTON CHAPEL LANE SP7081 15/11 The Baptist Chapel 02/11/54
- II
Baptist Chapel. Datestone 1803 altered by E.F. Law 1864. Brick and stucco with slate roof. Chapel with vestibules at east end. Single storey with gallery. Stuccoed main front by Law has projecting single storey porch with 3-bay open arcade having archivolt and keystones with Doric pilasters at the corners. 3 - entrances. Simple entablature above with dentilled cornice. Above the porch a 3-window range of round headed openings with moulded architraves and keystones. Cast iron window frames with semi-circular glazing bars to the heads. Pairs of pilasters at corners with entablature above with dentilled cornice and open dentilled pediment. Occulus with 4 keystones in pediment. Windows to return wall of east front have arched heads. Large rusticated quoins. South elevation is of chequered brick with 3-window range. Those at first floor are similar to the east front and those at ground floor have moulded stone architraves with square heads. The west elevation has blank openings with pointed heads. Late C19 schoolroom attached to the right of the east front has 2 round headed windows, one breaking forward with a pediment over. Interior: Central arched opening beneath the entrance porch which has an external flight of steps dividing into 2 to serve the gallery. Inscribed tablet "Errected 1803" above the staircase. Gallery with a fielded panelled front on 3 sides of the chapel, the centre section opposite the pulpit breaking forward as a canted bay. The gallery is supported on cast iron columns. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.151).
Listing NGR: SP7090781835
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 360264
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 151
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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