Number 79 and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
NUMBER 79 AND MOUNT PLEASANT BAPTIST CHURCH, 79, HAMMERTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244815
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Number 79 and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 79 AND MOUNT PLEASANT BAPTIST CHURCH, 79, HAMMERTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244815
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Number 79 and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 79 AND MOUNT PLEASANT BAPTIST CHURCH, 79, HAMMERTON 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:
- NUMBER 79 AND MOUNT PLEASANT BAPTIST CHURCH, 79, HAMMERTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 83871 32354
Details
BURNLEY
SD8332SE HAMMERTON STREET 906-1/19/68 (West side) 29/09/77 No.79 and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
II
Methodist chapel, now Baptist church and Sunday School. c1835. For the Protestant Wesleyan Methodist Society, altered c1868-71 by the Baptist Society; and Sunday School added in later C19. Coursed squared dressed sandstone with freestone dressings and slate roof. Rectangular plan at right-angles to street; with Sunday School attached to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3 bays, a symmetrical facade with narrower pedimented outer bays slightly projected and the whole in open-pedimental gabled form. The centre has full-width steps, and coupled entrances and windows in a 2-storeyed round-headed architrave which has superimposed pilasters, a moulded cornice over the ground floor and a moulded head with a panelled keystone: the doorways have moulded surrounds, recessed panelled doors and overlights with coloured margin panes, and the windows above are sashed, with similar margin panes. The outer bays have tall 8-pane round-headed windows with coloured panes and margins, and panelled keystones. No.79 adjoining to the left, breaking forwards and slightly overlapping the left bay, has a 3-storey single-window gabled facade with a doorway to the right in a plain surround and windows with raised sills, plain surrounds and altered glazing. The side walls of the church have tall round-headed windows (5 on the north side). At the rear, the school, built at right-angles, has a 2-storey 3-window gabled facade with (inter alia) a large cross-window in the centre of the upper floor. INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD8387132354
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467066
- 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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