Cambria Baptist Chapel
CAMBRIA BAPTIST CHAPEL, CAMBRIA PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355893
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cambria Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- CAMBRIA BAPTIST CHAPEL, CAMBRIA PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355893
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cambria Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAMBRIA BAPTIST CHAPEL, CAMBRIA PLACE
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:
- CAMBRIA BAPTIST CHAPEL, CAMBRIA PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Swindon (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Swindon
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 14407 84364
Details
CAMBRIA PLACE SU 18 SW SWINDON 3/23 Cambria Baptist Chapel II
Baptist chapel, 1866. Snecked rock-faced limestone with Bath ashlar dressings. Slate-hung brickwork to west side, English bond brickwork with stone dressings to east and rear. C20 interlocking tile roof. Rear hall extensions. North entrance elevation with central pair 2-panelled doors within painted pilasters and keyed archivolt. Thin pediment over. Stone plinth and end pilaster buttresses. Round-headed 2-pane sash windows either side. Elevation characteristically Welsh. Each side 3 round-headed cast iron paned windows within hollow-chamfered reveals. Internally simple west gallery on 2 slender cast iron columns. Raised dias with turned balustrade and acorn headed newels. Boarded flat ceiling. Hall and additions not of special interest. The chapel is the focal point of Cambria Place, built for the Welsh community of ironworkers moving to Swindon.
Listing NGR: SU1440784364
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 318683
- 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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