Baptist Chapel the Lawrence Flat the Manse Adjoining
BAPTIST CHAPEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176198
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel the Lawrence Flat the Manse Adjoining
- Statutory Address:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL
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- Date:
- 2002-09-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/08925/29
- Rights:
- © Mr John H. Sparkes. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176198
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel the Lawrence Flat the Manse Adjoining
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE LAWRENCE FLAT
- Statutory Address 3:
- THE MANSE ADJOINING
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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
- Statutory Address:
- THE LAWRENCE FLAT
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANSE ADJOINING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hatch Beauchamp
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 30057 20126
Details
HATCH BEAUCHAMP CP ST3020 HATCH BEAUCHAMP VILLAGE
12/11 Baptist Chapel, The Lawrence Flat and The Manse adjoining (formerly listed as 2 separate items: Baptist Chapel and The Manse) 25.2.55
GV II
Baptist chapel; lecture room and classrooms, now flat; manse, vacant at time of survey (December 1984). Chapel dated 1783, lecture rooms dated 1883, manse 1855. Chapel and lecture rooms: roughcast grooved as ashlar, quoins, lias plinth, gable fronted, slate roofs, overhanging eaves, decorative bargeboards to taller lecture rooms. Plan: parallel range, 2-storey lecture room and classrooms left, chapel full height probably with west end gallery. 1:1 bays; Ham date stones in gable ends, 3-light arched windows resting on lintels of 6-panel double doors with rusticated surrounds and pentice porches on stepped brackets, left hand entrance to lecture rooms flanked by illegible Ham stone tablets set above the plinth, larger tablet left stating that this addition was made "at the sole expense of Mr Vincent Owsley as an expression of gratitude to Almighty God for blessings received" and opened 1883. Left return, 4 bays, 12-pane sash windows first floor, two 16-pane sash windows ground floor and inserted C20 door right. Right return; 2 arched many paned windows. The Manse adjoining, set back. Rendered, shallow pitch slate roof, brick stacks gable ends; probably double pile; 2 storeys, 3 bays, 2-light casements first floor, ground floor cruciform windows central segmental headed recessed doorway, flanked by stepped buttresses, half-glazed door with marginal glazing bars and coloured glass. (Photograph in NMR).
Listing NGR: ST3058021148
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270791
- 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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