Bonsall Baptist Church, Attached Railings, Entrance Gatepiers and Boundary Walls
BONSALL BAPTIST CHURCH, ATTACHED RAILINGS, ENTRANCE GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS, YEOMAN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387305
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Bonsall Baptist Church, Attached Railings, Entrance Gatepiers and Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address:
- BONSALL BAPTIST CHURCH, ATTACHED RAILINGS, ENTRANCE GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS, YEOMAN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387305
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Bonsall Baptist Church, Attached Railings, Entrance Gatepiers and Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- BONSALL BAPTIST CHURCH, ATTACHED RAILINGS, ENTRANCE GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS, YEOMAN STREET
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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:
- BONSALL BAPTIST CHURCH, ATTACHED RAILINGS, ENTRANCE GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS, YEOMAN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bonsall
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 27869 58222
Details
SK25NE
668/6/10030
BONSALL
YEOMAN STREET
Bonsall Baptist Church, attached railings, entrance gatepiers and boundary walls
II
Non-Conformist chapel, attached railings, entrance gatepiers and boundary walls. Dated 1824, with minor late C20 alterations. Roughcast rubble limestone with ashlar gritstone dressings and a Staffordshire Blue clay tile roof covering.
PLAN: Simple linear plan, aligned north-south with east side wall entrance and north gallery. FRONT (east) ELEVATION: 3 bay front, with tall semi-circular arch- headed windows set within ashlar surrounds with keyblocks and projecting cills. Small-paned cast iron window frames with each radiating bars to the arched head, set above a pivoted 6-pane opening light. To the right-hand end, semi-circular arch headed doorway with keylock, fanlight and 6-panel door. Above the doorway, a plaque which reads "BAPTIST 1824". 2 tall windows to south gable, and 2 shallow arch-headed windows to upper part of the north gable light the north gallery.
INTERIOR: Entrance leads into lobby to the rear of the chapel, from which a plain stick baluster stair gives access to the gallery, which retains contemporary tiered benching. Plain gallery front. At ground floor level, panelled settles separate the body of the chapel from the entrance lobby. Dado boarding to chapel walls, and simple central pulpit with ball finials above boarded frontage,
SETTING: To the front of the chapel are spear-headed railings which enclose the frontage plot' extending eastwards to the entrance gatepiers which are of square section with depressed pyramidal caps, the left-hand pier supporting a metal lamp fitting. Railed entrance gate with mid rail. Attached rubble limestone boundary walls set at angle to define entrance area, then extending south and north, with plain flat coping.
HISTORY: The chapel was originally built as a preaching station of the Baptist Church of nearby Wirksworth.
A little altered example of an early C19 Baptist chapel, serving a small rural mixed industrial and agricultural community, which demonstrates, both externally and internally, the characteristic simplicity and modesty of fittings and finishes of churches of the Baptist movement of the period.
Listing NGR: SK2786958222
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475255
- 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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