Kilsby United Reformed Church and Adjoining Cottage

KILSBY UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND ADJOINING COTTAGE, CHAPEL STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1376650
Date first listed:
11-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Kilsby United Reformed Church and Adjoining Cottage
Statutory Address:
KILSBY UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND ADJOINING COTTAGE, CHAPEL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1376650
Date first listed:
11-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Kilsby United Reformed Church and Adjoining Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
KILSBY UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND ADJOINING COTTAGE, CHAPEL STREET

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
KILSBY UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND ADJOINING COTTAGE, CHAPEL STREET

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

District:
West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Kilsby
National Grid Reference:
SP 56212 70934

Details

KILSBY CHAPEL STREET SP5670 (South side) 15/157 Kilsby United Reformed Church and adjoining cottage

GV II

Chapel. 1784. Coursed squared ironstone, corrugated asbestos tile roof. 2 storeys; 3 bays. Central 2-light casement window, the lintel covered by board inscribed with times of services, on ground floor. Doorway on either side with wood lintel and 6-panel door. Three 2-light transomed windows with wood lintels on the first floor. Semi-circular window with stone surround with keyblock in gable. Coped gable end. Interior: pulpit with canopy, C18. Panelled dado around all walls. Gallery on 3 wood Tuscan columns with panelled front, the upper part now partitioned to form a schoolroom. Pews late C19. Wall tablet inscribed "To the memory of Thomas Strange, this house erected and this congregation greatly improved ..... He settled at Kilby in 1753 and died in 1784". Formerly the Congregational chapel. Cottage adjoining to left, late C18, brick, slate roof, brick stack. 2 bays; 2 storeys. Doorway with arched brick surround and 4-panel door in right bay. Two blocked windows with similar brick surrounds to left. Carriage entrance with wood lintel and plank doors in left bay. Two-light casement windows with wood lintels on the first floor. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP5621270934

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
361050
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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