Newhouse Baptist Church
NEWHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333684
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Newhouse Baptist Church
- Statutory Address:
- NEWHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333684
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Newhouse Baptist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEWHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH
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:
- NEWHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Upottery
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 19692 09969
Details
UPOTTERY ST 10 NE 6/110 Newhouse Baptist Church - GV II Baptist church, considered the mother church of the district. Founded 1652, rebuilt 1859 with schoolroom added in 1912. The chapel is plastered local stone and flint rubble with Membury stone ashlar detail, the schoolroom is exposed local stone and flint rubble with brick dressings; slate roof. Plan: small chapel on north-south axis with preaching desk at the north end and gallery at the south end. Also south porch. The school room extension projects at right angles from the north end of the rear (east) side. Exterior: the west side has a 3-window front of tall lancet windows containing diamond panes of leaded glass. Tile roof is gable-ended with shaped kneelers, coping and ball finials. The south end is the entrance front and there is a central gabled porch (with shaped kneelers, coping and ball finials like those of the main roof) and it has a 2-centred outer arch. Another 2-centred arch to the south doorway behind. This porch is flanked by lancet windows and there is another over the porch. In the gable there is a stone plaque inscribed "This Baptist Chapel was founded in the year 1652 in the time of the Five Mile Act. Chapel rebuilt in 1859." The schoolroom also has tall lancet windows but these have Y-tracery glazing bars. Interior: of the church is complete as built in 1859. There is a 4-bay roof of king post trusses. The box pews, the rostrum, the gallery supported on octagonal posts are all original and so too are the 4 ornate wrought iron hanging lamps (now converted to electricity). Newhouse is an attractive and remarkably intact Baptist Church of 1859. Nevertheless it is more important for its history. The church was founded as a Particular and Calvanistic Baptist Church in 1652 although it is believed that Baptists had been worshipping in the area for some years (choosing a place near the borders of three counties and five parishes to avoid persecution). The early church documents apparently record early worshippers from Tiverton, Exeter, Honiton, Wellington and Taunton. The site is supposed to have been the gift of Nicholas Code from nearby Moonhayes Farmhouse (q.v) and whose monument (q.v) is in the burial ground adjoining. Source: Church guide. C. Stell Inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels RCHM (forthcoming).
Listing NGR: ST1969209969
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86665
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stell, C, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in South West England, (1991)
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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