Baptist Church
BAPTIST CHURCH, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222773
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Church
- Statutory Address:
- BAPTIST CHURCH, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222773
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAPTIST CHURCH, MAIN 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:
- BAPTIST CHURCH, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Gidding
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 11760 83016
Details
The following building shall be downgraded to Grade II:-
TL 1083 GREAT GIDDING MAIN STREET (south east side)
13/53 Baptist Church
II*
and the list entry shall be amended to read:
TL 1083 GREAT GIDDING MAIN STREET (south east side)
13/53 Baptist Church
II
Chapel. Dated 1790 on stone plaque with C19 addition to rear. Coursed limestone rubble with hipped slated roof; C19 red brick and pantiled roof. One galleried storey. Symmetrical entrance facade of three 'bays'. Openings with flat dressed stone arches and plain key blocks. Two plain C20 doors with rectangular fanlights, deeply recessed with central sixteen-paned hung sash window, three similar slightly recessed first floor windows. Two plain stone plaques between first floor windows with inscriptions painted black 'The building Erected by Subscription' and 'For a Place of Worship 1790'. (Dated inscriptions on side walls.) Interior: Gallery on three sides supported on slender columns, gallery seating simple pine benches; two gallery staircases. In 1992 the box-pews, rostrum and brick floor were removed and the C19 emersion bath was altered. The original chapel was founded at Winwick in 1780. Minute books and registers from 1811. HRO
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TL 1083 GT GIDDING MAIN STREET (South East side)
13/53 Baptist Church
II*
Chapel. Dated 1790 on stone plaque with C19 addition to rear. Coursed limestone rubble with hipped slated roof; C19 red brick and pantiled roof. One galleried storey. Symmetrical entrance facade of three 'bays'. Openings with flat dressed stone arches and plain key blocks. Two plain C20 doors with rectangular fanlights, deeply recessed with central sixteen-paned hung sash window, three similar slightly recessed first floor windows. Two plain stone plaques between first floor windows with inscriptions painted black 'The building Erected by Subscription' and 'For a Place of Worship 1790'. (Dated inscriptions on side walls). Interior: Gallery on three sides supported on slender columns, gallery seating simple pine benches; two gallery staircases. Boxed pews with fielded panels complete. Pulpit with reeded panels enlarged from original. Original brick floors. Emersion bath C19. The original chapel was founded at Winwick in 1780.
Minute books and registers from 1811. HRO
Listing NGR: TL1176083016
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54772
- 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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