Baptist Church and Sunday School
BAPTIST CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1090758
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Church and Sunday School
- Statutory Address:
- BAPTIST CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1090758
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Church and Sunday School
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAPTIST CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL
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 CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Stanley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 81996 03179
Details
SO 8103 and KING'S STANLEY MIDDLEYARD SO 8203-8303 (north side)
13/18 Baptist Church and Sunday School
II
Baptist church and attached Sunday school. 1824; mid C19 school. Coursed and dressed limestone, ashlar to school; Welsh slate and plain tile roofs. Rectangular church with lobby at west end; school to north. Keeper's house in basement. Front: low-pitched parapet gable to church with similar to central lobby projection. Central round-arched doorway with impost blocks; double glazed doors with fanlight. Two round-arched windows to lobby staircase with linking sill band. Central recessed round-arched panel above with raised capital lettering 'BAPTIST CHURCH/FOUNDED 1640'. Single round-arched window to church on each level either side of lobby. All church windows have glazing bar casements and fixed lights. School to left has Romanesque revival style front with moulded open pediment and central flat-roofed-lobby projection. Lobby has cornice and moulded round-arched opening in each face. Two-light round-arched windows with moulded architraves and imposts, one each side of porch, both with sashes and moulded apron panel. Incription panel with very small lettering within main pediment: 'KING'S STANLEY BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL'. South side: 3- window round-arched fenestration on 2 levels as to front. North side: paired sashes. Two gabled roof dormers to school with round-arched windows. Rear: 2 tall round-arched church windows, now blocked. Various sash windows to school and basement rooms. Interior: simple church interior with compartment ceiling. Small gallery has panelled front and is supported on 3 circular pillars. Gothic organ case. Building stands at end of main vista through Middle Yard. (N.M. Herbert, 'King's Stanley' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp 242- 257)
Listing NGR: SO8199603179
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 131892
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1972), 242-257
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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