Central Baptist Church and Ancillary Buildings to South
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH AND ANCILLARY BUILDINGS TO SOUTH, DEVONSHIRE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252950
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Central Baptist Church and Ancillary Buildings to South
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH AND ANCILLARY BUILDINGS TO SOUTH, DEVONSHIRE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252950
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Central Baptist Church and Ancillary Buildings to South
- Statutory Address 1:
- CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH AND ANCILLARY BUILDINGS TO SOUTH, DEVONSHIRE 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:
- CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH AND ANCILLARY BUILDINGS TO SOUTH, DEVONSHIRE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Southampton (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 41622 12667
Details
The following building shall be added:-
SOUTHAMPTON DEVONSHIRE ROAD SU4112 (West side) 983-0/1/10006 Central Baptist Church and ancillary buildings to south
II
Baptist church and ancillary buildings including hall and vestry. 1910; by George Baines and Son of London; J. Nichol of Southampton, builder. Red brick in Flemish bond with freestone dressings, in a Free Gothic style. Slate roofs. PLAN: Wide auditorium with entrance at east end, apse at west end, short wide transepts and tower on the north east corner. The ancillary buildings adjoining south, including a hall and vestry. EXTERIOR: East front has wide gable-end of auditorium with large 5-light Perpendicular window with pinnacles, blind tracery at apex, porch with tent-shaped gable parapet and flanking turrets, the turret on the right rises as the corner turret of the tall tower on the north east comer. The tower has stone bands and tall bell-openings, cornice with gargoyles and parapet swept up between the comer turrets and octagonal openwork traceried wooden lantern with short spire. To the left of the church, the small vestry with canted bay and hipped roof and to the left [south] of the vestry is the hall with 5-light Perpendicular window over pinnacled doorway and flanking turrets; there is a fleche on the hall roof. The north elevation of the church has twin gables to the transept to the right with two Perpendicular windows and squat corner turrets. Fleche over the main roof. INTERIOR: The church auditorium has exposed hammerbeam roof trusses, supported at the 'east' end on the piers of the transept arcades which have polished granite shafts and stiff-leaf capitals. Similar shafts and capitals to the responds of the moulded chancel arch. Concentric plan of curved benches. The hall is aisled and has timber arcade and hammerbeam roof SOURCE: Buildings of England, page 525.
Listing NGR: SU4162212667
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436069
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 525
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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