Former Baptist Chapel
FORMER BAPTIST CHAPEL, SWEENEY MOUNTAIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054248
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Former Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER BAPTIST CHAPEL, SWEENEY MOUNTAIN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054248
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Former Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER BAPTIST CHAPEL, SWEENEY MOUNTAIN
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:
- FORMER BAPTIST CHAPEL, SWEENEY MOUNTAIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oswestry Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ2842626011
Details
SJ 22 NE
5/222
OSWESTRY RURAL
SWEENEY MOUNTAIN
Former Baptist Chapel
GV
II
Former Baptist Chapel, c.1831. Roughly-coursed limestone rubble with
squared quoins and dressed voussoirs; gabled slate roof of diminishing
courses; stone left end stack. Rectangular plan. Simplified Gothic
Revival style. One storey; 4-bay range. Two - centred pointed arches
with voussoirs over double doors with glazing bars to overlight set in
typanum and over 2-light windows with colonettes to shouldered heads with
brattished cornice and glazing bars to tympanae windows. Plank door to
left gable end and original privy attached to rear left. Interior: plain,
with later C19 seating and cast-iron fireplace. (RCHM, Nonconformist
Chapels and Meeting Houses - Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1986, p. 198).
Listing NGR: SJ2842626011
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255712
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986), 198
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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