Tomb of the Reverend Andrew Fuller in Baptist Church Burial Ground

Fuller Baptist Church, Gold Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 8JB

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Overview

An early-C19 altar tomb. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1051656
Date first listed:: 21-Nov-1974
List Entry Name:: Tomb of the Reverend Andrew Fuller in Baptist Church Burial Ground
Statutory Address:: Fuller Baptist Church, Gold Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 8JB

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1051656
Date first listed:: 21-Nov-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Oct-2023
List Entry Name:: Tomb of the Reverend Andrew Fuller in Baptist Church Burial Ground
Statutory Address 1:: Fuller Baptist Church, Gold Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 8JB

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Fuller Baptist Church, Gold Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 8JB

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kettering Town
National Grid Reference:: SP 86749 78899

Summary

An early-C19 altar tomb.

Reasons for Designation

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History

The historic core of Kettering centres around St Peter and St Paul church, Market Place to its north-west, and the immediate network of streets around it. Originally a Saxon village and later a market town, Kettering was for much of its history a relatively small linear settlement comprising what are now Gold Street, the High Street, Market Street, and Market Place. This core layout of medieval streets persists today, though the majority of the surviving buildings date from the C19 and early C20. Kettering was at the convergence of several important routes and benefited from this and from the wool industry, but it was the arrival in 1857 of the Midland Railway which enabled larger industries, particularly the boot and shoe making industry, to expand the town significantly beyond its historic core. The wider town is still characterised by numerous former factories and associated terraced housing.

The site of Fuller Baptist Church (Grade II-listed, National Heritage List for England entry 1051655) has been developed since at least the C16, and buildings probably existed on this site from the early days of the Saxon settlement. Maps from the 1720s show this area of Gold Street densely occupied, with some buildings extending to the rear on long narrow plots.

In 1769, the first Baptist church was erected on this site, in a complex that also comprised school rooms, a burial ground, a house and garden for the minister, and four cottages. This C18 church was enlarged in 1805. The Reverend Andrew Fuller (born 1754), after whom the Church was named, was pastor from 1783 to his death in 1815 and was buried in the adjacent burial ground. He was a noted theologian and missionary and was friends with William Carey, another nonconformist minister with connections to Kettering. He helped Carey found the Baptist Missionary Society.

In 1861 the previous church was demolished, and the current church was built. The burial ground of the previous church, including the tomb of Andrew Fuller, was retained.

Details

MATERIALS: limestone.

DESCRIPTION: a classical altar tomb typical of the Regency period, with plinth end pilasters, shaped inscription panels and cornice slab over.

Listing NGR: SP8674978899

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 230080
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
Local history information about the Rev Andrew Fuller, accessed 19 February 2021 from [http://www.townsontheweb.com/northamptonshire/kettering/local_visiting_history.htm]
Other
"Parishes: Kettering," in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London: Victoria County History, 1930), 218-226. British History Online, accessed January 25 2021, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol3/pp218-226.
Map of Kettering c. 1720, accessed 16 February 2021 at [http://britishlibrary.georeferencer.com/maps/a6b9887c-b961-47b1-8460-899d17408fc3/]
OS 25” Northamptonshire XXV.10 (Kettering; Rothwell; Weekley) (surveyed 1884, published 1887)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.