Baptist Chapel
BAPTIST CHAPEL, MERRYMANS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1329677
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL, MERRYMANS LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06985/17
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1329677
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jun-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL, MERRYMANS LANE
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, MERRYMANS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Warford
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ8163877020
Details
SJ 87 NW GREAT WARFORD CP MERRYMAN'S LANE
7/24 Baptist Chapel
14.4.67 (formerly listed as
Baptist Chapel and
Chapel Cottage)
II*
Chapel and cottage. Mid C17 with alterations of 1712 and 1813.
Timber frame with brick infill and red English garden wall bond brick
with stone slate roof. 2-storey cottage to west with aisleless
galleried chapel to east. Road frontage: Early C18 brickwork. 6
bays, cottage and church contiguous. Cottage to left of 3 bays. Door
at far left with splayed head. Early C18 plank doorway with
contemporary ironwork including knocker plate inscribed "No.the 4
1712". 2 bays to right have splayed-head 2-light casements to ground
floor with blind window to left of first floor containing datestone
inscribed WBC 1813. 2-light casement to right of this with wooden
lintel. To the right are 2 triangular-headed lancet windows with
stone cills of the 1813 remodelling and containing C20 diamond leaded
panes. Splayed head doorway to right exactly similar to that of left
hand cottage. Plaque between lancets inscribed "Great Warford Baptist
Chapel Founded at Norbury Houses 1642". Clasping buttress at right
corner of C20 brickwork. Eastern gable end: C17 English garden wall
bond brick. Blocked doorway to ground floor originally giving access
to lean-to (now demolished). 2-light casement window to first floor,
originally taller. Rear elevation: 9 x 3 cells of small framing. 3
2-light casement windows to ground floor and 2 2-light casements to
first floor, one of 12 panes of old glass. C20 outshut projecting to
right at ground floor level. C20 clasping buttress at left corner.
West front: C20 brickwork with 1 triangular-headed lancet as at front
but taller.
Interior; The chapel is said to have been converted from a barn probably in
1712 when it had a gallery at either end and the pulpit against the North wall.
In 1813 part was divided off as a cottage for the minister. As presently arranged,
the chapel is divided from the cottage by a wall against the centre of which
the pulpit is now placed. 5 C19 box pews to North and 4 to South. Truss supported
on 2 chamfered posts, the northern having an ogee stop. Arch braces from wall
posts supporting cambered tie. Queen posts.
Listing NGR: SJ8163877020
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58399
- 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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