Yarcombe Baptist Church
YARCOMBE BAPTIST CHURCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169622
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Yarcombe Baptist Church
- Statutory Address:
- YARCOMBE BAPTIST CHURCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169622
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Yarcombe Baptist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- YARCOMBE BAPTIST CHURCH
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:
- YARCOMBE BAPTIST CHURCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Yarcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 24986 07927
Details
YARCOMBE ST 20 NW 7/181 Yarcombe Baptist Church 22.2.55 - II Baptist church. Dated 1829, renovated in the late C19. Plastered local stone rubble (lightly incised as ashlar) with Hamstone ashlar detail; slate roof. Plan: Baptist Church on a rough east-west axis. Entrance front at the east end and late C19 - early C20 meeting room and vestry on the west end. Exterior: east end has a symmetrical 3-window front. The windows were altered in the late C19 and comprise a Hamstone centre oculus flanked by arch-headed windows, all containing small rectangular panes of leaded coloured glass. The windows are high in the wall. Below the oculus is a late C19 tablet inscribed "Baptist Chapel, opened August 20th 1829". Below this is the doorway which contains the original panelled double doors under a flat hood on shaped timber brackets. The north and south side walls both have 2 tall original round-headed windows containing stone Y- tracery. The roof is hipped both ends. Interior: not inspected. Source: C. Stell Inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels - RCHM (forthcoming)
Listing NGR: ST2498607927
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86735
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stell, C, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in South West England, (1991)
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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