Baptist Chapel and Charles Baker Monument in Burial Ground
BAPTIST CHAPEL AND CHARLES BAKER MONUMENT IN BURIAL GROUND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325882
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel and Charles Baker Monument in Burial Ground
- Statutory Address:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL AND CHARLES BAKER MONUMENT IN BURIAL GROUND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325882
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel and Charles Baker Monument in Burial Ground
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL AND CHARLES BAKER MONUMENT IN BURIAL GROUND
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 CHARLES BAKER MONUMENT IN BURIAL GROUND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kentisbeare
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 09122 08178
Details
ST OO NE KENTISBEARE SAINTHILL 8/112 Baptist Chapel and Charles Baker - monument in burial ground II Baptist chapel and integral manse. Dated 1830. Mainly pebbledashed cob, with unrendered random rubble limestone to rostrum (north) end; gable end slate roof with crested ridge tiles. A simple rectangular space with a gallery at the main entrance end (south) and a small 2-storeyed manse built behind the rostrum under the same roof as the chapel, heated by a small brick stack. The chapel is aligned north/south. Exterior: west elevation: 3 pointed 2-light windows to chapel, the middle one taller than those to either side, with Y tracery, the frames pegged; intersecting leading and some panes of comtemporary brightly coloured glass. Gallery lit by 2- light window, lintel at eaves level. The manse has a 2-light square-headed casement window to each floor, each light with original wooden tracery. Entrance front (south): pointed central doorway with planked door, with triangular-headed lancet to either side and another set above. East elevation: external stair turret to extreme left (access to gallery); two 2-light pointed windows, smaller than to the west, and set high. North end with rounded corner, and no windows. Interior: Gallery, now boarded to form a meeting room, but with the original frontal visible. Upper rail with diamond patterning; 4 simple depressed panels to either side of 2 central panels enriched with cable moulding and apertures with organ pipes. Benches and other furnishings, circa 1870. Planked canted ceiling. Rooms to rear of rostrum with planked doors and strap hinges. Panelled door to gallery. The burial ground contains some C19 monuments including a slate headstone in a brick pillar, commemorating Charles Baker (d.1836) 'founder of the Baptist cause at Sainthill'.
Listing NGR: ST0912208178
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95767
- 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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