Former Salem Baptist Chapel
FORMER SALEM BAPTIST CHAPEL, CLARENCE PARADE, CHELTENHAM, GL50 3PA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386841
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Former Salem Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER SALEM BAPTIST CHAPEL, CLARENCE PARADE, CHELTENHAM, GL50 3PA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386841
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Former Salem Baptist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER SALEM BAPTIST CHAPEL, CLARENCE PARADE, CHELTENHAM, GL50 3PA
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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.
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:
- FORMER SALEM BAPTIST CHAPEL, CLARENCE PARADE, CHELTENHAM, GL50 3PA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cheltenham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 94771 22444
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13/06/2017
SO9422SE
630-1/13/256
CHELTENHAM
CLARENCE PARADE (North West side)
Former Salem Baptist Chapel
(Formerly listed as Salem Baptist Chapel)
05/05/72
GV
II
Former chapel. 1843-4, subdivided in 1980. Ashlar over brick with slate roof. Picturesque Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: plinth. Gabled front of three bays, central window in the 'Decorated' style with crocketed label; small rose window to apex with hoodmould. Outer pointed arched openings have three orders of arches with slender pilasters and tall panelled doors with simple Perpendicular-type tracery. Terminal buttresses.
INTERIOR: gallery around four sides with arcaded panelled front supported by iron columns, now partly obscured by inserted ceiling. Flat roof with beams on corbel brackets. Original joinery includes arcaded panelled doors. Carved stone pulpit noted in 1983 List as currently dismantled.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built for the seceders from Bethel Chapel, cost £3,400, £1,000 of which was donated by Mrs Gardner. Intended to seat 2,000.
(Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993: 119; RCHME: Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Gloucestershire: London: 1986: 75; Blake S: Cheltenham's Churches and Chapels AD 773-1883: Cheltenham: 1979: 26; Rowe G: Illustrated Cheltenham Guide 1850: Cheltenham: 1845-1969: 43; Godwin HG: A History of Salem Baptist Church, Cheltenham: 1986; List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Department of the Environment: Borough of Cheltenham: 1983).
Listing NGR: SO9477722431
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474252
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses Gloucestershire, (1986), 75
Sampson, A, Blake, S, A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 119
Rowe, G, Illustrated Cheltenham Guide 1850-1969, (), 43
Godwin, H G, A History of Salem Baptist Church Cheltenham, (1986)
Blake, S, Cheltenhams Churches and Chapels AD 773-1883, (1979), 26
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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