Baptist Chapel and Attached Schoolroom Including Forecourt Wall
BAPTIST CHAPEL AND ATTACHED SCHOOLROOM INCLUDING FORECOURT WALL, HOLLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280592
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel and Attached Schoolroom Including Forecourt Wall
- Statutory Address:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL AND ATTACHED SCHOOLROOM INCLUDING FORECOURT WALL, HOLLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280592
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel and Attached Schoolroom Including Forecourt Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL AND ATTACHED SCHOOLROOM INCLUDING FORECOURT WALL, HOLLAND 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:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL AND ATTACHED SCHOOLROOM INCLUDING FORECOURT WALL, HOLLAND ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29590 04688
Details
HOVE
TQ2904NE HOLLAND ROAD 579-1/19/57 (East side) 26/02/91 Baptist Chapel and attached Schoolroom including forecourt wall
II
Baptist chapel, school room and forecourt wall. 1887 by John Wills and paid for by the Congreve family. Transitional Gothic style. Coursed Purbeck rubble with freestone dressings; slate roof with crested ridge tiles. Chapel and hall form a continuous range along street. From left a screen wall to passage separating chapel from house (not included) contains a Caernarvon-arched doorway set in pentised porch with quatrefoil window over with pilaster buttress completed by a heavy broached pinnacle abutting house. The chapel runs parallel to the street: a transept has two tiers of triple lancets each of two lights flanked by a single light; then four bays of double lancets in two tiers each beneath a gablet and separated by buttresses. The main entrance, a two centred arched doorway with polished Purbeck shafts occupies the ground storey of a buttressed tower, standing forward one bay, of four stages with false battlements and machicolations and with a derived Rhenish-style pyramidal roof. To the right again a further screen with doorway links to the schoolroom, gable-end to the street with triple lancet windows. Interior: the chapel is open to the roof which has hammerbeams and collars pierced with trefoils. There are galleries to three sides carried on cast-iron columns with foliated capitals. All the original pitch pine pews and desks survive, as do the fine wrought-iron screens to the galleries and other fixtures. (Elleray DR: The Victorian Churches of Sussex: 1981-: 68).
Listing NGR: TQ2959004688
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365548
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Elleray, D R, The Victorian Churches of Sussex, (1981), 68
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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