GRITTLETON BAPTIST CHAPEL

GRITTLETON BAPTIST CHAPEL, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1363850
Date first listed:: 29-May-1985
List Entry Name:: GRITTLETON BAPTIST CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: GRITTLETON BAPTIST CHAPEL, THE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1363850
Date first listed:: 29-May-1985
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: GRITTLETON BAPTIST CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: GRITTLETON BAPTIST CHAPEL, THE STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GRITTLETON BAPTIST CHAPEL, THE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Grittleton
National Grid Reference:: ST 86180 80057

Details

GRITTLETON THE STREET ST 88 SE (south side)

3/55 Grittleton Baptist Chapel (formerly listed as Strict Baptist Chapel) 29.5.85

II*

Baptist Chapel, c1720, rubble stone with ashlar dressings and hipped Bridgwater tile roof. Rectangular plan with flush segmental-headed windows, 2 tall cross-windows to west side with dripcourse over, four smaller cross-windows to ground floor of east side, dripcourse above and four 2-light upper windows. South end segmental-headed doorway with keystone and short moulded cornice over. A south east cornerstone has scratched 1722 and possibly 1705 dates. Elevations appear to reflect a gallery on east and pulpit central on west wall but interior now has galleries at north and south ends, that to south probably C18, on two turned posts, has fielded panelled front, that to north, possibly C19, is over a glazed-fronted vestry. Original octagonal timber pulpit with fielded panels and turned balusters is reset in front of vestry. At rear south east corner three C18 oak box pews, the rest of the pews are mid C19 deal. Licensed 11.1.1721. The chapel was promoted and supported by the Houlton family of the Manor House. (J.E. Jackson, A History of the Parish of Grittleton, 1843, 21)

Listing NGR: ST8618080057

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Legacy System number:: 315866
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Jackson, J E , A History of the Parish of Grittleton, (1843), 21

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.