Baptist Church, with Chapel Cottage attached

Baptist Church, with Chapel Cottage attached, Cragg Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1261805
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1982
List Entry Name:: Baptist Church, with Chapel Cottage attached
Statutory Address:: Baptist Church, with Chapel Cottage attached, Cragg Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1261805
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1982
Date of most recent amendment:: 07-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: Baptist Church, with Chapel Cottage attached
Statutory Address 1:: Baptist Church, with Chapel Cottage attached, Cragg Road

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.

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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:: Baptist Church, with Chapel Cottage attached, Cragg Road

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

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Horsforth
National Grid Reference:: SE 24099 37538

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 July 2021 to reformat text to current standards

SE 23 NW 8/127

HORSFORTH CRAGG ROAD LS 18, (east side) Cragg Hill Baptist Church, with Chapel Cottage attached

(Formerly listed as "CRAGG HILL, Cragg Hill Zion Baptist Church and hapel House")

30.4.1982

GV II

Chapel, with attached dwelling house. Early C19 (given as 1803 when first listed). Coursed squared sandstone, with quoins, stone slate roof. The chapel is rectangular in plan, the dwelling house attached to its west gable wall, on the same axis. The south front of the chapel of two high storeys and four bays, has a wide doorway at ground floor, flanked by square windows, and four tall round-headed windows above, all these openings with raised plain surrounds; the north side has two very tall round-headed windows through two storeys, flanked by first floor windows like those at the front; and square cellar openings below.

Chapel Cottage, attached at the west end, has a three-storey, three-bay gabled front to the road, with a central doorway, a single-light window above this, coupled windows on each floor to the left, three windows at second floor (single, coupled, and single), all these openings with raised plain surrounds; a gable chimney and gable coping with returned ends. The right-return wall, one bay (flush with the chapel), has similar coupled windows on all floors. The left return wall, which makes an angle with the chapel wall, has a turn flight of cantilevered external steps mounting round the angle to a second floor door, the steps protected by iron spear railings, and there is a blocked doorway to the chapel at the turning of the steps.

Listing NGR: SE2409937538

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 436585
Legacy System:: LBS

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