OLD BAPTIST CHAPEL

OLD BAPTIST CHAPEL, OLD BAPTIST CHAPEL COURT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1207425
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1952
List Entry Name:: OLD BAPTIST CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: OLD BAPTIST CHAPEL, OLD BAPTIST CHAPEL COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1207425
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 24-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:: OLD BAPTIST CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: OLD BAPTIST CHAPEL, OLD BAPTIST CHAPEL COURT

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OLD BAPTIST CHAPEL, OLD BAPTIST CHAPEL COURT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Tewkesbury
National Grid Reference:: SO 89028 32562

Details

TEWKESBURY

SO8932 OLD BAPTIST CHAPEL COURT 859-1/6/317 (North side) 04/03/52 Old Baptist Chapel (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET Old Baptist Chapel, Old Baptist Chapel Court)

GV II*

Formerly known as: Baptist Chapel CHURCH STREET. Former Baptist Chapel, now information and display area. Late C15, adapted for chapel use c1690 and 'modernised' in c1720; substantially restored c1980. Square panel timber-frame with tension bracing, plaster infill, tile roof. An original hall house adapted for chapel use, and restored to the supposed state of c1720; a single space, with galleries on 3 sides, and a partitioned-off minister's room. To the court in heavily restored framing on small stone plinth are 4 two-light casements with leading at first floor and 2 at ground floor; at centre are 2 full height 2+1 light multi-pane casements with a central structural post. Far left is 6-panel flush-beaded door, and at right end a similar door in moulded surround. At outer end the timber-framed gable partly concealed by adjacent brick cottages. INTERIOR is one large space with gallery on 3 sides, plastered segmental barrel ceiling, with 5 exposed tie-rods, exposed framing to walls. Galleries, approached by C20 staircases, supported on slender turned Doric columns to very high plinths, carrying heavy beam on brackets at street end, and very heavy stopped-chamfer beam at west (burial ground) end, panelled gallery fronts. At west end first floor the former minister's room enclosed by partition, and with fireplace. Good stained and grained pulpit with dentilled cornice and back board, centre of Court side, a few early benches. A new larger Baptist Chapel opened in 1805, and the old building sub-divided into 2 cottages, with remains of the Chapel between. Rear balcony may have been added in 1905. The whole was acquired by Tewkesbury Borough Council in 1976, and restored to its present condition at a cost of »116,000, including HBC grant of »44,000. The structure is now primarily of historical interest. (Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-houses: Stell C: Gloucestershire: London: 1986-: 98; The Old Baptist Chapel, Tewkesbury: Story of its Development...: Tewkesbury: 1970-; Victoria County History: Gloucestershire: London: 1968-: 163).

Listing NGR: SO8903232556

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 376897
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986), 98
The Old Baptist Chapel Tewkesbury, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1968), 163

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.