Breachwood Green Baptist Church
BREACHWOOD GREEN BAPTIST CHURCH, CHAPEL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347430
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Breachwood Green Baptist Church
- Statutory Address:
- BREACHWOOD GREEN BAPTIST CHURCH, CHAPEL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347430
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Breachwood Green Baptist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- BREACHWOOD GREEN BAPTIST CHURCH, CHAPEL 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:
- BREACHWOOD GREEN BAPTIST CHURCH, CHAPEL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Walden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 15083 21958
Details
TL 12 SE KINGS WALDEN CHAPEL ROAD (East side) Breachwood Green
4/4 Breachwood Green Baptist Church
GV II
Baptist church. 1904 by Geo Baines & Son of London, Mallett & Wood builders Luton. Red brick banded with white brick, cream terracotta traceried windows, caps to piers and moulded copings. A tall 2-storeys building in a free Arts and Crafts Perpendicular style, with shallow W part, 4 windows long narrower nave, and one window long lower E part. Adjoining on E 2-storeys 4 windows long plum brick plainer building of 1897 with engraved memorial plaques to its building. W front gabled with very large 7 lights window with ogee traceried head under moulded segmental arch with drip and leaf stops. Twin double doors below up 2 steps, segmental traceried heads to each with moulded drip carried up to shield-shaped finial. Large leaf stops. Splayed brick jambs and half-glazed panelled doors. Bold tapering buttresses flank front and have lower hipped roofed square stair turrets to each side. Buttresses have panelled head, wide overhanging bracketed cornice, swept pointed lead caps and tall wrought iron finials of a standard type supporting a circle with tendril brackets. Moulded terracotta crochet finial to gable. Roofs of stair turrets and body of church have deep overhang with moulded rafter ends painted white projecting beyond gutter. Stained glass to W window and fanlights. Windows to nave at 2 levels in moulded terracotta, 3-lights cinquefoil under flat head to 1st floor: 3-lights with cinquefoil heads and ogee tracery under segmental heads to ground floor. Interior: galleried on 3 sides and choir gallery at E with organ with pointed arched recess on bold foliate corbels. Central pulpit and railed foredeck. Posts to this taper to top with wide moulded square caps. Ironwork tendril balusters with beaten copper hearts. Gallery posts similarly tapered with bold square caps and arcaded panelling pierced below rail. 5 arched trusses with tie rods. All windows Art Nouveau stained glass features in cathedral glass field. Heart shape cut in pew ends. Under N gallery 'Bunyan's Pulpit 1658' (in ink on back). Square C17 oak with moulded plank door on preacher's left, shelf, horizontal moulded plank front, seat-shelf within and moulded square knob finial to rear LH corner on which door is hung by butterfly hinges. Formerly in use at Coleman's Green where this church was founded. Doors with stained glass panels and copper push plates with repouse hearts. (Pevsner (1977)219).
Listing NGR: TL1508321958
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162796
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 219
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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