Steep Lane Baptist Chapel and School
STEEP LANE BAPTIST CHAPEL AND SCHOOL, STEEP LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134482
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Steep Lane Baptist Chapel and School
- Statutory Address:
- STEEP LANE BAPTIST CHAPEL AND SCHOOL, STEEP LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134482
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Steep Lane Baptist Chapel and School
- Statutory Address 1:
- STEEP LANE BAPTIST CHAPEL AND SCHOOL, STEEP 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.
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:
- STEEP LANE BAPTIST CHAPEL AND SCHOOL, STEEP LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 02909 23668
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE STEEP LANE SE 0223 & SE 0323 (north side), Sowerby 11/243 Steep Lane Baptist 29.4.82 Chapel and School GV II
Baptist Chapel and School. Dated 1873 and 1874. Coursed squared stone, ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. Chapel gable on to road with school cross-wing to rear. Chapel: 2 storeys, 3 x 5 bays. Plinth, cill bands, lst-floor impost band, giant corner pilasters supporting corniced pediment, windows with glazing bars and margin lights. Central bay, of ashlar and breaking forward slightly, has steps up to panelled double door with overlight in architrave of pilasters supporting pedimented entablature, the entablature continuing to either side over side lights. Outer bays have square-headed windows on bracketed sills. lst-floor windows are round-arched with archivolts and imposts, the central window tripartite with wider central light and keystone rising into cornice, above which is blocking course and oculus in console-bracketed architrave with leaf-moulded keystones and inscription '1874 Steep Lane'; a scroll and the blocking course below continue the inscription 'PARTICULAR' 'BAPTIST CHAPEL'. Returns have square-headed windows to ground floor, round-arched windows above, all with glazing bars and bracketed sills, plain gutter brackets; corniced stack at rear gable. On right return the gabled school-room at the right end, projecting slightly, is of 2 storeys with basement and 3 bays. It has square-headed windows to basement and ground floor, round-arched windows to lst floor and oculus in gable. On its left return are steps up to a door set below window and date plaque with round-arched window above. Plaque reads "HEPZIBAH/1820/Peace be within this sacred place/And joy a constant guest/With holy gifts and heavenly grace/ Be her attendants blest". A stone above this is dated 1751 and one below inscribed 'SCHOOL 1873 CHAPEL 1874'. Interior: chapel has full gallery on cast-iron fluted Ionic columns; 3 plaster ceiling roundels with elaborate foliage decoration; turned balusters to pulpit railings; box pews; in ante- chamber, open-string stair to gallery has turned balusters and moulded handrail. This building replacesa former chapel built on the site in 1820 which in turn replaced one situated just to the east and probably built in 1751 (when the first minister was here and the date on one of the stones in the schoolroom wall).
Listing NGR: SE0290923668
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339375
- 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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