PEOPLE'S MISSION HALL

PEOPLE'S MISSION HALL, CORN STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394965
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: PEOPLE'S MISSION HALL
Statutory Address:: PEOPLE'S MISSION HALL, CORN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394965
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: PEOPLE'S MISSION HALL
Statutory Address 1:: PEOPLE'S MISSION HALL, CORN STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PEOPLE'S MISSION HALL, CORN STREET

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

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 74932 64515

Details

CORN STREET (North side)

People's Mission Hall 12/06/50 II

Mission hall, formerly a Roman Catholic chapel. Completed 1797, with C20 alterations, possibly by John Palmer. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with slate roof. EXTERIOR: Hall with large hipped roof set at angle to street faced by two storey range set to follow street line. To street in five bays, with replacement windows to former sashes at both levels, and blind light in bay five, where block narrows down across hall. Centre wide pair of C20 doors to flat three centred head, and in stone doorcase with pilasters to splayed bases and Doric capitals, with full entablature immediately below platband. Small cavetto cornice, blocking course and parapet. Left return at acute angle, with four large sixteen-pane lights to segmental heads and heavy square sills, and, at front end, similar raised light in sunk panel above horizontal four-pane light, beyond this outer end of front range. Plinth rendered, cornice and parapet continue from front. Right return similar, set at obtuse angle, but without bay corresponding with front range. INTERIOR: Not inspected. Previous list refers to flat ceiling with deep cove, gallery at street end on Doric columns, and north end with fluted Corinthian pilasters carrying entablature without architrave, characteristic of Palmer. HISTORY: The building presently stands rather isolated, in area which suffered considerable bomb damage in the Baedeker Blitz of 1942. This was Bath's Roman Catholic church from 1786/7 until 1809 when they moved to the Old Theatre (now Masonic Hall qv) in Orchard Street. This church was built after the previous one in St James¿s Passage was destroyed in the Anti-Papist Gordon Riots of 1780. The presbytery was at 12 St James's Parade (qv). The chapel was used by Baptists in the 1830s and then became used as a mission chapel for St Paul¿s church until 1936. From c1947 it was used by a breakaway body of the Salvation Army called the People¿s Band Mission. SOURCES: [C. Stell, `An Inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses of South-West England¿ (RCHME 1991), 166].

Listing NGR: ST7493264515

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 510384
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.