Roade Baptist Church and attached schoolroom
Roade Baptist Church and attached schoolroom, High Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040937
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Roade Baptist Church and attached schoolroom
- Statutory Address:
- Roade Baptist Church and attached schoolroom, High Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040937
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Roade Baptist Church and attached schoolroom
- Statutory Address 1:
- Roade Baptist Church and attached schoolroom, High Street
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:
- Roade Baptist Church and attached schoolroom, High Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Roade
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 75893 51710
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 November 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
SP 7550
11/135
ROADE
HIGH STREET (South side)
Roade Baptist Church and attached school room
24/2/88
II
Non-conformist (Baptist) chapel. Partly of 1736-7; altered in the late C18; heightened, re-roofed and the window heads renewed in 1802; early C19 schoolroom and vestry. Coursed limestone rubble with limestone dressings, slate roof, hipped to left, with lower two-storeyed schoolroom and vestry to right. Chapel, two storeys, two-window range. Four-panel doors with overlights to left and right of central ground floor twelve-pane sash window. Similar sashes to first floor either side of central (late C19) clock face in circular moulded stone surround. Doors and windows have stone lintels. Attached storeyed one-window range slightly set back with similar door and sashes. Rear with six twelve-and eighteen-pane hornless sash windows. Left return with oculus to gable wall. Right return with horned sash windows.
Interior: Gallery on slender columns; plain benches throughout (with planked backs). Baptistry for full immersion stands forward of site of communion table.
References: RCHM(E), An Inventory of Non-conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England (1986), p.146; E A Payne, Roade Baptist Church 1688-1938 (1938).
Listing NGR: SP7589351710
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234952
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986), 146
Payne, E A, Roade Baptist Church 1688-1938, (1938)
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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