Keach's Meeting House and Graveyard Walls
KEACH'S MEETING HOUSE AND GRAVEYARD WALLS, BELL WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1227954
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Keach's Meeting House and Graveyard Walls
- Statutory Address:
- KEACH'S MEETING HOUSE AND GRAVEYARD WALLS, BELL WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1227954
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Keach's Meeting House and Graveyard Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- KEACH'S MEETING HOUSE AND GRAVEYARD WALLS, BELL WALK
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:
- KEACH'S MEETING HOUSE AND GRAVEYARD WALLS, BELL WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winslow
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 76952 27483
Details
SP 7627 - 7727 WINSLOW BELL WALK
6/145 Keach's Meeting House and graveyard walls.(formerly listed as Particular Baptist Chapel)
19.8.59
- II*
Baptist chapel. C17, said to be 1625 but probably contemporary with porch dated 1695, altered and re-fitted early C19. Brick, irregularly bonded. Left gable has brick plinth and band course at eaves level. Old tile roof, 2 bays. N. front has small leaded windows with moulded jambs and wooden shutters. Central gabled porch is timber framed with brick infill and original twisted wooden balusters to open side sections, wooden entablature to front is much restored. E. gable has C20 2-light window in blocked doorway and single barred window above. S. front has C20 leaded casements with segmental heads. 2 single lights high in W. wall inserted 1824. Humble interior has arched braces to central principal rafters, and wind braces to roof. Fittings: C17 communion table with turned baluster legs; c.1800 box pews and central pulpit at W. end; plain benches with single back rails, probably of same date; narrow gallery of 1827 along E. wall with open front and narrow staircase to N.; wooden hat pegs. Early C18 tomb slabs in floor. Small graveyard to front has brick wall with segmental arch to gateway on E. side. Chapel associated with Benjamin Keach, one of the first people to introduce regular hymn singing in services, and pastor at Winslow 1658-68. RCHM II p 341 MON 2 Guide Book.
Listing NGR: SP7695227483
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402438
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Guidebook to Keachs Meeting House Winslow, ()
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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