Baptist Chapel
BAPTIST CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114059
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114059
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ridgmont
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 97373 35806
Details
The following buildings shall be added to the list:-
SP 9735 RIDGEMONT HIGH STREET
13/10000 Baptist Chapel GV II
Baptist chapel. Dated 1811; a mid C19 remodelling of a Georgian chapel. Flemish bond red brick at rear, front and sides rendered. Slate roof with coped gable ends. Plan: Approximately square auditorium with gallery on 3 sides, rostrum on fourth (NW) side and entrance under gallery on opposite SE front. Italianate style remodelling. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with large pedimental gable with acroteria and dentilled cornice with Vitruvian scroll frieze inscribed "BAPTIST -1811-CHAPEL". Band with crenellations. 2-light windows with margin panes and moulded architraves on bracketed cills, those on first floor with panelled heads, the ground floor with round arches, keyblocks and decorated tympana. Central porch with pedimental gable, vermiculated rustication, segmental arch with tall keyblock, rectangular overlight with margin panes and 6-panel double doors. Similarly treated left (SW) return with bands and 2 windows on each floor. Brick rear (NW) end with wide gable and 2 round- headed windows with stained glass. NE side is abutted by the school house and manse [No 17 (qv)]. Interior: Gallery on 3 sides supported on thin cast-iron columns and with fretted balusters applied to gallery front. Ventilation roundels in ceiling. Painted text over rostrum on NW wall. Rostrum has balustrade and arched panelled back. Moulded window architraves and stained glass in NW wall. Panelled screen to entrance under gallery. C19 benches and wall memorials. Note: Founded in 1701 (Kelly's 1914): "Protestant dissenting meeting house was made" before 1722 (Chapel Book in CRO x 347/6). Chapel, school house and manse [No 17 (qv)] depicted on Enclosure Award Map of 1797.
Listing NGR: SP9737335806
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38377
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Bedfordshire, (1914)
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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