Baptist Chapel
BAPTIST CHAPEL, ERMINE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162804
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL, ERMINE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162804
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL, ERMINE 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:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL, ERMINE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Caxton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 30434 58181
Details
TL 3058-3158 CAXTON ERMINE STREET (East Side)
12/67 Baptist Chapel
GV II
Chapel. 1845, Sunday School and vestry added to east 1874. Yellow gault brick with slate roof; end stack to east gable. Single storeyed with two galleries, and two storeyed rear extension. Gable to street with symmetrical facade. Pilastered quoins, plastered brick bands at eaves and sill height. Plain moulded stone architraves to doorway with rectangular fanlight and double panelled doors, and to two gallery windows with twelve-paned hung sashes. Interior: One open, and partly closed galleries to east and west. Pine boarded ceiling; pine seating. Wall memorial of white and black marble with painted black inscription to the founder Samuel Fordham (1794-1876). The first meetings were held in the barns of Red Lion Farm.
R.C.H.M. West Cambs., p37, mon.2 V.C.H., Vol. V, p35 Chapel minute books. C.R.O.
Listing NGR: TL3043458181
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51095
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1973), 35
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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