Carey Baptist Chapel
CAREY BAPTIST CHAPEL, POLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207315
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Carey Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- CAREY BAPTIST CHAPEL, POLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207315
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Carey Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAREY BAPTIST CHAPEL, POLE 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:
- CAREY BAPTIST CHAPEL, POLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Preston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 54343 29592
Details
PRESTON
SD5429NW POLE STREET 941-1/10/222 (West side) Carey Baptist Chapel
GV II
Chapel for Methodists of Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, now Baptist church. 1826, altered. Brick, with scored stucco facade, slate roof. Rectangular plan with short lean-to extension at west end. Gable to road. Two storeys, a symmetrical 3-window facade, with corner pilasters, impost band to ground floor, sill-band to 1st floor, and gable treated as a pediment. The ground floor has 3 doorways, the centre segmental headed with panelled double-doors under a 2-light fanlight, the outer round-headed with panelled doors under fanlights with radiating glazing bars, and all with moulded surrounds to the heads including keystones; the 1st floor has round-headed windows, all with coloured margin panes and moulded surrounds to the heads with imposts and keystones; the pediment has a central tablet lettered "CAREY BAPTIST" flanked by circular vents. The side walls have tall segmental-headed windows with coloured margin panes (formerly 4 in each side but the 4th on the south side now covered by C20 addition). INTERIOR: former horseshoe gallery now reduced to curved gallery at east end, with panelled front and carried on slender cast-iron columns; dentilled cornice and panelled ceiling; moulded surrounds to windows; Corinthian pilastered architrave to opening at west end, with modillioned cornice and frieze lettered "ONE LORD ONE FAITH ONE BAPTISM".
Listing NGR: SD5434329592
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392113
- 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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