Baptist Chapel

BAPTIST CHAPEL, UPPER DOWNS SLADE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1375530
Date first listed:
26-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:
Baptist Chapel
Statutory Address:
BAPTIST CHAPEL, UPPER DOWNS SLADE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1375530
Date first listed:
26-Jun-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
04-Nov-1997
List Entry Name:
Baptist Chapel
Statutory Address 1:
BAPTIST CHAPEL, UPPER DOWNS SLADE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BAPTIST CHAPEL, UPPER DOWNS SLADE

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Haverhill
National Grid Reference:
TL 66997 45550

Details

HAVERHILL

TL6645 UPPER DOWNS SLADE 816-1/5/27 (East side) 26/06/52 Baptist Chapel (Formerly Listed as: CAMPS ROAD (North side) Baptist Chapel Upper Downs Slade)

II

Baptist chapel. 1828. Red brick under hipped roof of concrete pantiles. EXTERIOR: single storey. Rectangular on plan with corners articulated by clasping pilasters. South return with double-leaf panelled door within panelled reveals and a doorcase of reeded and bowed pilasters. Dentil cornice and flat hood. Either side is one 6/6 unhorned sash under gauged skewback arches. Datestone over door immediately below a half-round window with radial glazing bars. West return with 2 recessed arched niches, each containing a fixed 12-paned window with an opening 12-paned upper section. Door and one small window towards north end. INTERIOR: panelled galleries to north and south, the latter supported on cast-iron columns. Both galleries closed off and with C20 suspended ceilings. Polygonal pulpit with trefoiled arcading. Running north-south below central aisle is a total immersion font.



Listing NGR: TL6699745550

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
466428
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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