Strict Baptist Chapel
STRICT BAPTIST CHAPEL, ST MARY'S GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114604
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Strict Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- STRICT BAPTIST CHAPEL, ST MARY'S GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114604
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1989
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Strict Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- STRICT BAPTIST CHAPEL, ST MARY'S GATE
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, ST MARY'S GATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dunstable
- National Grid Reference:
- TL0179621687
Details
In the entry for:
TL 0121 NE St Mary's Street
1/134 Strict Baptist Chapel
the address shall be amended to read:
St Mary's Gate
Strict Baptist Chapel
The following building shall be added:
TL 0121 NE ST MARY'S STREET
1/134 Strict Baptist Chapel
II
Strict Baptist Chapel. Built 1849 on site of earlier building. Flemish bond
yellow brick; gabled slate roof; brick rear end stack. Classical style. Gabled
3-bay front framed by clasped pilasters and dentilled cornice; gauged red brick
semi-circular arches over 30-pane sashes flanking blind window set above classi-
cal doorway with pilasters and cornice. 3-bay side walls with similar sashes to
front and flat brick arches over 2-light casements with glazing bars to rear and
door to rear left. Interior: complete set of furnishings with carved bench ends
to pews, and gallery to three sides with panelled balcony fronts and dados and
reached by two straight-flight stairs with winders; box pews to front flank
pulpit with turned balusters and fret-cut brackets to steps. Monuments: wall
tablets to Lawrence Chesher, Minister (d.1819) and wife Mary (d.1817) and to
Mary Hudrial of Totternhoe (d.1808).
History: the first meeting-house in St Mary's Street was built in 1708.
Listing NGR: TL0179621687
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 35778
- 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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