Thorpe Baptist Church
THORPE BAPTIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147653
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thorpe Baptist Church
- Statutory Address:
- THORPE BAPTIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147653
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thorpe Baptist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORPE BAPTIST CHURCH, 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:
- THORPE BAPTIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorpe-le-Soken
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 17985 22380
Details
THORPE-LE-SOKEN HIGH STREET TM 1622-1722 (north-east side) 8/85 Thorpe Baptist Church
GV II
Baptist church. 1803. Timber framed, weatherboarded and roughcast, roofed with old grey slates. Rectangular plan facing SW, with single-storey block to rear. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 C19/early C20 sashes of 16 lights. First floor, 2 original sashes of 4 + 8 lights, with crown glass. C20 double doors, with original gabled canopy on scrolled brackets, boarded later on left side only. Front elevation roughcast, remainder weatherboarded. Hipped roof of shallow pitch with lead hip-ridges and long overhanging eaves with paired brackets. The left return has on the ground floor 2 original sashes of 16 lights, and 2 of 12 lights, and on the first floor 2 original sashes of 4 + 8 lights. The right return has on the ground floor 2 original sashes of 16 lights and on the first floor 2 original sashes of 4 + 8 lights. Most of the original sashes contain crown glass. The rear block has a hipped slate roof. The rear elevation of the main hall has on the upper storey 2 sashes of 12 lights with semi-circular heads. The interior is of one storey with at the SW end a gallery with panelled front supported on cast iron stanchions, added in 1820 (E.A. Wood, A History of Thorpe-le-Soken to the year 1890, 1975, 64, 105).
Listing NGR: TM1798722385
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 120314
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wood, E A, A History of Thorpe le Soken to the Year 1890, (1975), 64 105
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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