Strict Baptist Chapel and Walled Forecourt
STRICT BAPTIST CHAPEL AND WALLED FORECOURT, TOWN HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068714
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Strict Baptist Chapel and Walled Forecourt
- Statutory Address:
- STRICT BAPTIST CHAPEL AND WALLED FORECOURT, TOWN HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068714
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Strict Baptist Chapel and Walled Forecourt
- Statutory Address 1:
- STRICT BAPTIST CHAPEL AND WALLED FORECOURT, TOWN HILL
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:
- STRICT BAPTIST CHAPEL AND WALLED FORECOURT, TOWN HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lamberhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 67424 36002
Details
LAMBERHURST TOWN HILL TQ 6636-6736 & 6635-6735 (north west side) 8 & 9/262 Strict Baptist Chapel and walled forecourt GV II
Chapel. 1816, altered 1851. Red and blue chequered brick with slate hung rear addition. Slate roof. Simple Neo-Classical style rectangular chapel with 2 storey rear wing, the main elevation with pedimented gable containing gauged brick roundel and gauged round headed windows either side of central panelled double doors with traceried segmental fan and flat hood on brackets. Side elevations with brick dentil eaves cornice and single tall window opening. All windows with late C20 top bung casements (replacing sashes). Rear wing with sash windows and end stack. The upper courses of the chapel show signs of the 1851 alterations, the rear wing entirely of this date (although Homan, Victorian Churches of Kent, says the chapel was rebuilt 1851). Walled forecourt to east of chapel, c.1851 walls about 4 feet in height of red brick in English bond on sandstone base with coping stones and slight piers to corners and to central gate, itself with simple iron uprights. The right return side of the forecourt formed by the gates and walls to Murlingden, item no. 8/261 built c.1841 and predating the forecourt walls.
Listing NGR: TQ6742436002
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 170099
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Homans, R, Victorian Churches of Kent, (1984)
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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