Baptist Chapel and Attached Cottage
BAPTIST CHAPEL AND ATTACHED COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055006
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel and Attached Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL AND ATTACHED COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055006
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel and Attached Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL AND ATTACHED COTTAGE
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 AND ATTACHED COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Worthen with Shelve
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 38037 02072
Details
WORTHEN C.P. LORDSHILL SJ 30 SE
6/137 Baptist Chapel and - attached cottage
- II
Baptist chapel and attached cottage. Dated 1833, re-built 1873 with later alterations. Stucco with plain tile roof. Chapel: gable front; fixed-light round-headed windows to either side of gabled porch with inner 6-panel double doors and one window above to centre; 2 similar windows to 'ritual' east end. Datestone with inscription 'Erected/AD 1833/Rebuilt/1873' to front with pointed finial above to gable. Cottage: probably c.1873; one storey and attic, toothed eaves cornice; plate- glass sashes to left and right of central entrance and to gabled half dormers directly above; 4-panel door with bracketed lean-to hood; rendered internal end stack to right. Interior: majority of fittings late C19; benches, wainscot panelling and reader's desk all of this date but 2 cast-iron columns supporting west gallery may be original. Round- arched panel behind desk supported by 2 pairs of consoles has the painted words "Serve the Lord with Gladness"; circular moulded panels to roof. 4-panel door with rectangular overlight in left wall leads to lean- to vestry. The cottage was formerly the manse and the chapel is described in the work of Mary Webb, the Shropshire novelist. Its re-building dates to the period of extensive improvements at the neighbouring Snailbeach Lead Mine.
Listing NGR: SJ3803702072
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 257468
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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