Baptist Church

BAPTIST CHURCH, NEW ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1127310
Date first listed:
14-Sept-1984
List Entry Name:
Baptist Church
Statutory Address:
BAPTIST CHURCH, NEW ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1127310
Date first listed:
14-Sept-1984
List Entry Name:
Baptist Church
Statutory Address 1:
BAPTIST CHURCH, NEW ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BAPTIST CHURCH, NEW ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Over
National Grid Reference:
TL 37432 69992

Details

TL 36NE OVER NEW ROAD (South West Side)

4/110 Baptist Church

GV II

Nonconformist chapel with school room to right hand. 1810 with major alterations of 1830, 1917 and 1932. Gault brick with low pitch slate roof, hipped. Two storeys. Three c.1917 windows with stone surrounds at first floor and two at ground floor flanked by two doorways of similar period. Brick inscribed R.A. and 1810 near left hand doorway. The school room adjoining to the right is probably mostly c.1917 and replaced a C19 vestry. Also of gault brick. Interior: Various alterations have taken place to the interior of the chapel. It is galleried on three sides though the gallery has been reset. The pulpit and immersion chamber are at the West end, flanked by two doorways leading from the schoolroom (formerly the vestry). Monuments in chapel. Alice, wife of Nathaniel Gifford, 1835, signed Cannam, St. Ives; Nathanial Gifford, 1845, signed Cannam, St. Ives; Sarah (Lee). wife of Benjamin Cattell, 1818; Rev. Thomas Lee, 1806 pastor, oval tablet signed Wm. Haselgrove, Cam'ge; Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Lee, 1816, oval tablet; George Prudden, 1837; Susanna, wife of George Prudden, 1828. C.F. Stell. R.C.H.M. record cards Over Strict Baptist Chapel. Bicentenary Celebrations Booklet (1937)

Listing NGR: TL3743269992

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Legacy System number:
50857
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Over Strict Baptist Chapel Bicentenary Celebration Booklet, 1937,

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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