Baptist Church
BAPTIST CHURCH, SANSOME WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390142
- Date first listed:
- 18-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Church
- Statutory Address:
- BAPTIST CHURCH, SANSOME WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390142
- Date first listed:
- 18-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Baptist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAPTIST CHURCH, SANSOME WALK
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 CHURCH, SANSOME WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Worcester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 85037 55385
Details
WORCESTER
SO8555SW SANSOME WALK
620-1/13/503 (East side)
18/08/99 Baptist Church
II
Baptist Church. Dated 1863; with later additions and alterations.
Built by Pritchett and Son of Darlington. Coursed sandstone with
sandstone ashlar quoins and architraves, ashlar spire, slate
roof.
PLAN AND EXTERIOR: 5-bay nave with galleried transepts and
single-bay chancel and organ galleries above vestries, 2-stage
south-west tower over porch. Off-set buttresses to east and west
ends. Entrances to west end: double glazed doors in
pointed-arched surround; to aisles at either side are pointed
plank doors with single cusped light over; quatrefoil in gable.
5-light west window with Decorated-type tracery. Aisles have
mainly 2-cusped-light windows with quatrefoils to heads and
transoms. Transepts have two single-light windows to lower stage
and 4-light windows to upper stage. The east end has two single
lights and rose window to apex. Tower has battered sides to lower
stage and quatrefoil window; and pair of belfry openings with
Decorated-type tracery to each side of upper stage. Octagonal
spire with bands of ornament.
All openings have double-chamfered surrounds with hoodmoulds and
arch over of alternate dressed and undressed voussoirs;
hoodmoulds to west end have face stops.
INTERIOR: aisles have slender cast-iron pilasters with foliate
caps and pointed-arched timber arcade. Central pulpit to east
end. Organ loft to east and galleries to west and to transepts
have blind arcades to balustrades. Roof is ribbed and panelled.
HISTORICAL NOTE: to the east end a foundation stone bears the
nscription: 'This stone was laid by Mrs E B Evans of Whitbourne
Hall July 28 1863'.
A fine example of a robust Gothic Revival exterior in the context
of a nonconformist church design of the C19, with an unusually
well-designed interior which in its planning is otherwise
conventional for its type and period. (Littlebury: Directory for
the County of Worcester: 1873-; Buildings of England: Pevsner N:
Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 322; Royal Commission
on the Historical Monuments of England: Nonconformist Chapels &
Meeting Houses(Hfds., Worcs. & Warwicks.: 1986-: 256).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489112
- 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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