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MOOR HILL ROAD
1. Salendine Nook
5113
Salendine Nook
Baptist Chapel
SE 1017 26/953
II
2.
1843. The parent Baptist Chapel of Huddersfield. (Out of 18, 16 Baptist Chapels
in Huddersfield are daughter communities, and 1 is a grand-daughter). Ashlar.
Pitched slate roof. 2 storeys and basement. Front surmounted by pediment
with oculus in plain raised surround with shaped apron beneath, inscribed "Particular
Baptist Chapel Rebuilt 1843" (the apron was apparently added in 1893). 3 round-
arched sashes with glazing bars, plain imposts and keystones (central window
Venetian). Sides have 4 ranges of round-arched sashes with glazing bars: south
side has a 2-bay extension of 1893, full height. Ground floor has one-storey
ante-chapel of 1893, hammer-dressed stone, with ashlar dressings, cornice with
parapet, breaking forward in centre and with balustrade. Frontispiece has
2 doors with semi-circular fanlights in hollow chamfered surrounds, moulded
keystones, carved spandrels and fluted pilasters with composite capitals.
Round-arched side lights with moulded surrounds, keystones, and sunk moulded
aprons. Moulded sill band.
Interior: Segmentally vaulted and coffered plaster ceiling. Galleries on iron
columns with elaborate capitals. Very elaborate pulpit, and furniture over
baptistery. Pedimented and pilastered organ.
History: The principal leaders of the Baptist community in Huddersfield were
the Morton family, potters at Salendine Nook since the late C16. In 1689,
on the passing of the Toleration Act, a Morton registered his house as a place
of Protestant Dissent. In 1691 Lindley was recorded as being one of the 20
meeting places of the Great Rossendale Confederacy, and this therefore probably
meant Salendine Nook. If so it probably remained within the Confederacy until
the founding of the Independant Chapel in 1743. In 1739 a Chapel was built
on land belonging to Joseph Morton (ie here), which in 1742 was transferred
to 5 trustees (including Joseph Morton). In 1743 the Committee was organised
as an Independent Baptist Chapel, and Henry Clayton, who had been preaching
regularly in the area since 1731, became the first minister.
In 1803 the Chapel was rebuilt and again in 1843. In 1893 it was enlarged.
Churchyard contains some fine, mostly mid C19, tombs (including some early
C19 box tombs) and some good neo-classical obelisks and pillars.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number:
401887
Legacy System:
LBS
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