The Zion Baptist Church
THE ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, EAST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227719
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Zion Baptist Church
- Statutory Address:
- THE ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, EAST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227719
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Zion Baptist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, EAST 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:
- THE ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, EAST ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Cambridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 45830 58290
Details
CAMBRIDGE EAST ROAD TL 4558 SE 667- /8/10036 The Zion Baptist Church GV II Church. 1877-9. Gault brick with red brick and stone dressings and Welsh slate roofs, some hipped, some with stone-coped gables. Venetian Byzantine style, with large central space, lower entrance/staircase towers either side and vestries to rear. Front expressed as 2 storeys. 6-window range overall of 1-, 2-, and 3-light windows with brick round and basket arches and stone hoodmoulds. Larger windows have stone tracery. Small rose window above and lancet in gable apex. Similar windows on ground floor grouped as 1- or 3-lights. Entrances to either side have double leaved doors and deeply moulded round arches. First floor cill band inscribed 'Zion Baptist Chapel 1878'. Fine use of red brick and stone bands, moulded brick eaves and carved stone ornaments. Sides similar with 2-light windows between buttresses. Adjoins and forms group with the Zion Chapel Sunday School (qv) to right. INTERIOR. Unaltered except for formation of vestibule under rear gallery. Fittings include gallery round three sides with pierced balustrade, pews with end gates, pulpit, seats for minister and deacons, gallery pews, balustrades to gallery stairs, and 2 large gas chandeliers.
Listing NGR: TL4583058290
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350344
- 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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