Baptist Chapel

BAPTIST CHAPEL, STOCKS LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1128151
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:
Baptist Chapel
Statutory Address:
BAPTIST CHAPEL, STOCKS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1128151
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:
Baptist Chapel
Statutory Address 1:
BAPTIST CHAPEL, STOCKS LANE

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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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 CHAPEL, STOCKS LANE

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Gamlingay
National Grid Reference:
TL 23808 51922

Details

GAMLINGAY STOCKS LANE TL 25SW (West side) 3/92

22.11.67 Baptist Chapel

GV II

Non conformist chapel. Founded late C17-early C18 rebuilt 1840, extended 1858 and restored 1881. Red brick and hipped, slate roof with moulded wood eaves cornice. Two stage east front, mainly C18, except for porch. Two hung sashes with glazing bars in semi-circular headed arches. The sills of the windows cut into the plat band and suggest that the windows may have been enlarged. Two horizontal, six pane hung sashes at ground stage. Modern two stage porch with stone inscribed "Church formed 1670". North side in three window bays. Sixteen pane hung sashes with early glass. At the west end pair of vestries with lecture room over. 1858. Interior C19 gallery, seating and pulpit with double staircase. Founded under auspices of John Bunyan.

RCHM: West Cambs mon (2) CF Steel: Non conformist Chapels and Meeting-houses (RCHM) VCH: Cambs vol 5 p85 Pevsner: Buildings of England p391.

Listing NGR: TL2380851922

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
52755
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986)
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1973), 85
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 391

Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)

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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