Wainsgate Baptist Church and Attached Sunday School
WAINSGATE BAPTIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL, WAINSGATE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1227399
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Wainsgate Baptist Church and Attached Sunday School
- Statutory Address:
- WAINSGATE BAPTIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL, WAINSGATE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1227399
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wainsgate Baptist Church and Attached Sunday School
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAINSGATE BAPTIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL, WAINSGATE LANE
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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:
- WAINSGATE BAPTIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL, WAINSGATE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wadsworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 99828 28798
Details
SD 92NE WADSWORTH C.P. WAINSGATE LANE SD 998287
7/265 Wainsgate Baptist Church and attached Sunday School 29.4.82 (formerly listed as Wainsgate Baptist church under Old Town) G.V. II*
Chapel and sunday school, dated 1859. Hammer-dressed stone, ashlar dressings, rusticated quoins, slate roof. 2 storeys. 3-bay symmetrical front with pedimented gable. Doorway with panelled pilasters, panel over containing fanlight and spandrels capped by moulded cornice; date plaque above. 4-bay return continued by school range has similar windows to front; archivolt-arched windows with console keys in architraves. Moulded eaves cornice. The school range has console-bracketed eaves and shaped kneelers to gable end, quoins. Possibly reuses materials from the 1806 chapel and manse. West elevation has 2 doorways with monolithic jambs and cornices on consoles and 2 bays of 3-light windows, taller on 1st floor. Simple Venetian window in gable. Interior: Complete c.1860 furnishings. Gallery with curved end on pews, ornately carved oak rails to platform by Mitchells of Halifax. Ornate warble pulpit with alabaster panels, good bas relief designed by Anthony Welsh 1891 and donated by the Mitchell family who gave the stained glass, by Powell Brothers of Leeds between 1859-1900. The archway of the deep organ loft has ornate Oinceaux work. The organ loft wagon roof retains original star spangled azure colour scheme but the original elaborate stencilwork decoration of the body of the chapel has been overpainted. Ornate, partly pendant pierced-work rose vent in centre of ceiling. Wall monuments to John Fawcett and to Richard Smith first minister who died in 1817. Wainsgate is an early Baptist site, the chapel being founded in 1759 by the famous Baptist preacher and author John Fawcett DD, also associated with Heptonstall Slack and Hebden Bridge Chapels (q.q.v.), whose tomb (q.v.) is in the graveyard.
Listing NGR: SD9982828798
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425149
- 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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