Baptist Chapel
BAPTIST CHAPEL, BOUTPORT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385069
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL, BOUTPORT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385069
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL, BOUTPORT STREET
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:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL, BOUTPORT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55780 33513
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5533 BOUTPORT STREET
684-1/6/73 (West side)
31/08/88 Baptist Chapel
GV II
Baptist chapel. 1860. By RD Gould; C20 addition at rear.
Squared stone rubble with dressings of limestone; brick
relieving arches, painted white, to windows. Left gable wall
slate-hung. Slated roofs; stair turret at left-hand has a
small rendered chimney to left of front wall.
Plan consists of a large oblong room with galleries along rear
and side walls; rear gallery and space below now partitioned
off. At left-hand end an entrance lobby with stair turret to
left of it.
7-window range with 2 tiers of round-arched openings. All have
moulded archivolts terminating on small carved brackets, being
linked at cill level and springing level of the arches by
bands of limestone. Doorway in each end opening has 8-panelled
door, the 2 lowest panels flush; fanlight with radial glazing
bars. The other openings contain small-paned windows, 16 panes
in lower tier, 20 panes above, all with radial bars in the
window-head. A lot of old glass survives, especially in the
upper tiers. Small panels carved with 4-leaved flowers between
heads of openings in lower tier. Bracketed stone eaves
cornice.
The stair turret to left has a lower eaves level and contains
a small round-arched window in each of its 2 storeys; plain
chamfered surrounds, 8-pane fixed sashes, the top 2 panes
shaped to fit the head of the window.
INTERIOR: 1988 list description describes original galleries
as surviving, carried on cast-iron columns of quatrefoil
section with patterned, open-work brackets at the top. Gallery
fronts (possibly later) had deal panelling with ornate iron
rails above. Galleries re-seated in 1896. At south end, choir
loft had similar panelled front; at the rear of it an organ of
1884 with painted pipes. In front of and below it an elaborate
pulpit of 1933 with carved Gothic detail. 2 large, decorated
chandelier bosses on the ceiling.
Adjoining the chapel on the right-hand side are, successively,
the hall and schoolrooms (qv) and the former Minister's
residence, May House (qv).
(Gardiner WF: Barnstaple, 1837-97: Barnstaple: 1897-: 101;
1986-).
Listing NGR: SS5578033513
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485530
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gardiner, W F, Barnstaple 1837-1897, (1897), 101
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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