Berkhamsted Baptist Church Sunday School Attached to Berkhamsted Baptist Church
BERKHAMSTED BAPTIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263612
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Berkhamsted Baptist Church Sunday School Attached to Berkhamsted Baptist Church
- Statutory Address:
- BERKHAMSTED BAPTIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263612
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Berkhamsted Baptist Church Sunday School Attached to Berkhamsted Baptist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- BERKHAMSTED BAPTIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTACHED TO BERKHAMSTED BAPTIST CHURCH, HIGH 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:
- BERKHAMSTED BAPTIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTACHED TO BERKHAMSTED BAPTIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Berkhamsted
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 99576 07650
Details
BERKHAMSTED SP9907NE HIGH STREET (north side) 2/10010 Berkhamsted Baptist Church and attached Sunday School
II
Non-Conformist Church and Sunday School. 1864 (Pevsner) with minor C20 alterations. Yellow-grey stock brick with red brick banding; ashlar limestone to spire and for dressings; Welsh slate roof with coped gables. Gothic Revival style. Asymmetrical 'T' plan, with principal elevation to High Street at the south end, incorporating tower with spire to south-west comer. Lower part of tower, and base of broach spire in brick; narrow octagonal spire in ashlar, with a steeply-pointed lucame to each facet. Triple pointed arched entry to south gable and above, a 5-light window with Flamboyant tracery. Apsidal porch to south-east__corner with east doorway. Broad nave, with side aisles incorporated beneath continuous roof offshuts. 2-light pointed-arched windows to nave and multifoiled windows within arched surround to galleries, all set within panels delineated by raised vertical and horizontal bands. Head of'T' shape formed by Sunday school, with squat tower to north-west corner, below step pyramidal roof. Wide gables with triple lancet windows to upper floors and lower floor of west end. INTERIOR; fully galleried church, the side galleries carried on 2-stage columns which extend above the panelled gallery fronts to support an upper arcade. This arcade carries arch-braced tie beams, longitudinal arcade braces and aisle beams and struts. Principal trusses carry arch-braced collars. Contemporary furnishings and fittings, including gallery seating and organ set within arched recess at north end. A well-composed and little altered example ofmid-C19 Non-Conformist architecturein a Gothic Revival style, which occupies a prominent street frontage position and which indicates the extension eastward of Berkhamsted's principal street in the 1860's.
Listing NGR: SP9957607650
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431879
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1953)
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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