Baptist Chapel With Attached Parish Room and Manse
BAPTIST CHAPEL WITH ATTACHED PARISH ROOM AND MANSE, BROAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387016
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel With Attached Parish Room and Manse
- Statutory Address:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL WITH ATTACHED PARISH ROOM AND MANSE, BROAD STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387016
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Chapel With Attached Parish Room and Manse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAPTIST CHAPEL WITH ATTACHED PARISH ROOM AND MANSE, BROAD 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 WITH ATTACHED PARISH ROOM AND MANSE, BROAD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pershore
- National Grid Reference:
- SO9489845682
Details
SO9445
648-1/5/69
PERSHORE
BROAD STREET
(South side)
Baptist Chapel with attached Parish Room and Manse
GV
II
Chapel with attached parish room and manse. Chapel founded
1658, present building 1843, altered; extended towards road
(this part now the Parish Room) and manse built 1888. Brick
with Welsh-slate and plain tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: chapel of one storey, 1x4 bays, with gabled 2-storey
Parish Room added at front, and to right of this the manse
which has a 3-storey range, gable end to road, with a
2-storey, 2-window wing projecting from right side but set
back and with a single-storey porch in the angle.
Original chapel: of red brick in Flemish bond having
Welsh-slate roof with stepped dentilled eaves. Tall
4-centred-arched recesses, the arches of rubbed brick with
keystones, contain tall similarly-arched windows which have
stone cills and 7/4-pane sashes with arched glazing bars in
heads.
Parish Room: of red brick and ashlar; plain tile roof with
stepped, raised, verge. Stepped gable with moulded ashlar
coping and finial. Upper window of 5 stepped lights with
transoms and stepped hoodmould; panelled band below. Ground
floor has 3-light window and entrance on right with double
door and mullioned over-light.
Manse: red brick in Flemish bond with white-brick "quoins",
decorative bands, eaves and jambs; decorative stone cills and
lintels; oversailing Welsh-slate roof with dentilled and
moulded eaves, barge boards, and brick stacks with offsets.
Windows are 2/2 sashes, paired on ground floor, with a 3-light
canted bay-window to gable end of wing.
INTERIOR: of chapel: 3-sided gallery supported by cast-iron
columns and brackets with blind Gothick-arched panelled
fronts, 3 tiers of pews to sides and 1 at back;
Gothick-panelled NW gallery door; SW staircase has narrow
balusters, curved treads, and handrail with spiral curtail;
pointed-arched double-door on ground floor at E end; main
4-centred-arched entrance at W end; further pointed-arched
doorways; flat ceiling, divided into squares by deep ribs
springing from bosses on side walls, has 4 moulded ceiling
roses with metal grilles; ground-floor refurbishment of 1980s
resulted in removal of most original fittings.
Furnishings include candle lamp of 1843, early-C19 wall
monuments, and under-floor baptistry.
Listing NGR: SO9489845682
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474432
- 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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