SHEPPARDS BARTON BAPTIST CHURCH AND SCHOOL ROOMS AND FORECOURT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES AND GATE PIERS

SHEPPARDS BARTON BAPTIST CHURCH AND SCHOOL ROOMS AND FORECOURT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES AND GATE PIERS, SOUTH PARADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246340
Date first listed:: 22-Apr-2001
List Entry Name:: SHEPPARDS BARTON BAPTIST CHURCH AND SCHOOL ROOMS AND FORECOURT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES AND GATE PIERS
Statutory Address:: SHEPPARDS BARTON BAPTIST CHURCH AND SCHOOL ROOMS AND FORECOURT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES AND GATE PIERS, SOUTH PARADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246340
Date first listed:: 22-Apr-2001
List Entry Name:: SHEPPARDS BARTON BAPTIST CHURCH AND SCHOOL ROOMS AND FORECOURT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES AND GATE PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: SHEPPARDS BARTON BAPTIST CHURCH AND SCHOOL ROOMS AND FORECOURT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES AND GATE PIERS, SOUTH PARADE

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SHEPPARDS BARTON BAPTIST CHURCH AND SCHOOL ROOMS AND FORECOURT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES AND GATE PIERS, SOUTH PARADE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Frome
National Grid Reference:: ST 77414 47942

Details

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1010/0/10012 SOUTH PARADE 23-APR-01 Sheppards Barton Baptist Church, Schoo l Rooms and forecourt area railings, g ates and gate-piers.

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Baptist chapel and school rooms. 1850; by J. Davis; school rooms added circa 1860. Coursed limestone with ashlar dressings. Slate hipped roof with parapet at front; school rooms rusticated ashlar and red brick. PLAN: Square auditorium with gallery on three sides; entrance in recessed porch under gallery. School rooms added in about 1860 at rear, facing Wine Street. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: 2 storey 1:3:1 bay SE front with parapet and cornice, the flanking bays slightly advanced with cornice at first floor continuing across central recess; cornices supported on large console brackets in recess; rusticated quoins and rusticated ashlar at ground floor with 3-bay arcaded entrance with imposts carried through to flanking round-arch windows with rusticated voussoirs; five double-recessed round-arch windows on first floor with moulded archivolts, keystones, continuous impost mouldings and balustrades to cills; round-headed sashes with arched glazing bars; within the arcaded porch doorways in left and right returns have moulded fielded panel double doors with cornices. At sides round-headed first floor windows and segmental ground floor windows. Including forecourt area railings, gates and stone gate-piers and terminal piers with arched panels and caps. School rooms at rear [NW] facing Wine Street, with pedimental gabled front; ground floor rusticated ashlar with arched recesses, the centre wide segmental arch containing three round-headed windows and with tall narrow flanking round-headed recesses containing doorways with moulded segmental-headed overlights with keyblocks and with panelled doors, the top panels arched; first floor red brick red brick with stone pilasters, the three bays with moulded modillions above, the wider centre bay with segmental arch in gable and tripartite round-headed windows, the flanking bays with smaller round-headed windows; all round-headed sashes with margin glazing bars. INTERIOR: Gallery on three sides of auditorium on thin iron posts, most of its panelled front removed; dado panelling, seating and rostrum also taken out, the rostrum was re-used from the earlier, 1708, chapel; auditorium has ceiling divided into compartments with central skylight and with elliptical arch recess on NW side of auditorium. Wall monuments from former chapel, including those to John Sheppard [1806], Thomas Bunn [1775] and the Rev Edward Cooper Daniell [1828]. First floor school room has exposed arch-braced trusses on corbels. SOURCE: RCHME, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in South West England, p175.

Listing NGR: ST7741747943

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Legacy System number:: 487331
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Stell, C, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in South West England, (1991), 175

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.