GENERAL BAPTIST CHAPEL

GENERAL BAPTIST CHAPEL, MEETING STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1278812
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-1966
List Entry Name:: GENERAL BAPTIST CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: GENERAL BAPTIST CHAPEL, MEETING STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1278812
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-1966
List Entry Name:: GENERAL BAPTIST CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: GENERAL BAPTIST CHAPEL, MEETING STREET

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

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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:: GENERAL BAPTIST CHAPEL, MEETING STREET

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Charnwood (District Authority)
Parish:: Quorn
National Grid Reference:: SK 55790 16215

Details

QUORN

SK 51 NE MEETING STREET (South Side) 3/79 1.6.66 General Baptist Chapel

II

Baptist Chapel. Dated 1770 and early C20. Red brick and plain tile and Swithland slate roofs with a brick left end truncated stack, rear stack and metal central louvre stack to Chapel. 3 ranges, chapel to left, former Sunday School set back in centre, and early C20 extension, with hipped roof to right. Chapel of 2 storeys of 3 leaded light windows with cambered lintels : 2-light, 3-light, 2-light. Tablet under central window inscribed "General Baptist Chapel MDCCLXX'. Below is a large C20 porch. On right end a 3-light with 2-light over. Central range of 3 storeys of 3 3-light windows with cambered lintels. Range to right of 1 storey of leaded light windows with mullions and transoms : a 5-light to front and 2 2-lights on left side. Lean-to on right end. Interior has original gallery with panelled front on iron posts. 2 wooden Doric pillars support roof. These were inserted when the Chapel was extended in 1825, and were hand-turned in the Churchyard outside. Wall tablet to Rev. Benjamin Pollard, 1818.

Listing NGR: SK5579016215

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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.