Kensington Baptist Chapel
KENSINGTON BAPTIST CHAPEL, STAPLETON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208763
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Kensington Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- KENSINGTON BAPTIST CHAPEL, STAPLETON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208763
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Kensington Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- KENSINGTON BAPTIST CHAPEL, STAPLETON ROAD
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:
- KENSINGTON BAPTIST CHAPEL, STAPLETON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 60474 74116
Details
BRISTOL
ST6074 STAPLETON ROAD, Easton 901-1/37/1250 (West side) Kensington Baptist Chapel
II
Baptist chapel. 1885. By TL Watson. Limestone ashlar, Pennant ashlar and rubble, roof not visible. Neoclassical style. 2 storeys; 5-window range. A symmetrical front has a pedimented centre broken forward, with rusticated quoin strips to the central section and slightly recessed wings; Pennant plinth, ground-floor cornice, first-floor string, entablature, coped parapet, with the cornice raised across the centre beneath a raised parapet. Steps up to a tripartite doorway, a pedimented centre set forward with an eared architrave, architraves to flanking doors, and 2-leaf 10-panel doors. First-floor distyle-in-antis Corinthian loggia set between paired pilasters with incised anthemia capitals, to an entablature with a panel inscribed BAPTIST CHAPEL; 3 windows behind the columns have pilaster jambs and moulded lintels. Narrow windows to the wings have architraves, taller on the first floor with small pediments. Casements with horizontal glazing bars. Short ashlar returns, to Pennant rubble sides. INTERIOR not inspected. A late but competent use of Classicism for a nonconformist chapel in Bristol, by a Glasgow architect.
Listing NGR: ST6047474116
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380602
- 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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