Congregational Church
Congregational Church, Bowden Lane, Market Harborough, LE16 7AF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1287658
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Congregational Church
- Statutory Address:
- Congregational Church, Bowden Lane, Market Harborough, LE16 7AF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1287658
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Congregational Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- Congregational Church, Bowden Lane, Market Harborough, LE16 7AF
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:
- Congregational Church, Bowden Lane, Market Harborough, LE16 7AF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 73219 87513
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31 January 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SP 7387
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BOWDEN LANE (East Side)
Congregational Church
(Formerly listed as HIGH STREET United Reformed Church, previously listed as the Congregational Church)
25.7.52.
GV
II*
1844. Architect William Flint of Leicester. Recessed behind church yard. Gault brick with stone dressings and rusticated quoins. Painted modillion cornice and parapet with centre panel crowned by moulded scroll ornament and inscribed "Independent Chapel". Two storeys. Five windows, the centre three uppers divided by engaged Corinthian columns and flanked by Corinthian pilasters. Round-arched windows. Ground floor ham tetrastyle portico with Greek Ionic columns in antis. Six stone steps. Painted entablature above with dentil cornice. Ground floor windows have shaped frames and pediments. All windows, sashes with glazing bars and moulded painted architraves. Facade to Bowden Lane, six windows, those of first floor round-arched with band between floors and at first floor impost height.
Interior: Panelled balcony curved round three sides of church supported on long scrolled brackets with low relief curving and columns with composite capitals and fluted shafts on tall polygonal plinths. Moulded arch at east end with modillion cornice and pilasters over organ and pulpit. Six-panelled doors.
Listing NGR: SP7321987513
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 189680
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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