Former Baptist Church

Alan Ball House, 89, Bolton Road, Farnworth, BL4 7AT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385698
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1998
List Entry Name:: Former Baptist Church
Statutory Address:: Alan Ball House, 89, Bolton Road, Farnworth, BL4 7AT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385698
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1998
List Entry Name:: Former Baptist Church
Statutory Address 1:: Alan Ball House, 89, Bolton Road, Farnworth, BL4 7AT

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Alan Ball House, 89, Bolton Road, Farnworth, BL4 7AT

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

District:: Bolton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 73776 06177

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/03/2019

SD 70 NW 1664/9/10015

FARNWORTH Bolton Road No. 89, Alan Ball House Former Baptist Church

(Formerly listed as Baptist Church, FARNWORTH)

II Baptist church, disused at time of inspection (September 1998) 1907, with late C20 alterations. By Bradshaw and Gass, architects of Bolton. Smooth red brick with terra-cotta dressings and decorative banding below a Welsh slated roof.

FRONT (west) ELEVATION: central doorway bay terminates at a wide segmental pediment, with lower flanking bays with parapets above a moulded cornice. Doorway with moulded surround and open pediment, below a tall central window with flanking columns and a blind semi-circular head. Flanking bays with shallow pilasters framing a narrow lancet, all of the elevational elements combining to form a giant Venetian window above door head band course level. Half glazed double doors with curved heads, and windows subdivided into small panes. Set-back end bays with parapets, lower again, the return with two-light windows to upper level, and formerly with single storeyed rooms to the angles of front and side ranges.

SIDE (north) ELEVATION: segmental pediment to central transept gable incorporating a central Venetian gallery window above a tripartite ground floor opening, both flanked by broad flat pilasters. Lower bays with parapets to left and right, the former with a canted bay window to ground floor and a Diocletian window above. Two bays to right with matching Diocletian window, and ground floor windows, all of the ground floor openings with heads set within wide band course. The south side elevation has a wide central transept gable incorporating a Venetian window.

INTERIOR: fully-galleried interior now with seating removed except for surviving benches to west gallery. Continuous curved panelled front to galleries, and below, at west end, canted panelled pulpit with flanking stairs. West wall with panelled doors leading to former vestries. Main stairs to galleries with flat straight and curved balusters. Shallow vaulted ceiling to church, the central part a massive quadripartite vault with the vault segments glazed, and including stained glass with Art Nouveau decoration.

An early C20 Baptist Church of distinctive form, designed by an architectural practice of national reputation, which, despite minor alterations continues to form an important component of a prominent and well-preserved municipal group.

Listing NGR: SD7377606177

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Legacy System number:: 471103
Legacy System:: LBS

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