MANVERS STREET BAPTIST CHURCH

MANVERS STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, MANVERS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395639
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-2009
List Entry Name:: MANVERS STREET BAPTIST CHURCH
Statutory Address:: MANVERS STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, MANVERS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395639
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-2009
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: MANVERS STREET BAPTIST CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: MANVERS STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, MANVERS 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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Location

Statutory Address:: MANVERS STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, MANVERS 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 75272 64480

Details

MANVERS STREET (East side) Manvers Street Baptist Church 12/03/09

GV II

Baptist Church and Institute. Eclectic Gothic Revival. 1871-1872, 1903. By Wilson and Willcox. MATERIALS: Squared rock faced Bath limestone with freestone dressings and Welsh slate roofs. EXTERIOR: West front of church has double portal with twin lancets above and circular window with cusping over that, topped by hood mould, gable cross. Flanked by buttresses with set offs and by south aisle, which has paired window below single one. North aisle is hidden by three-stage tower which has same window arrangement as south aisle and then goes to circular plan for top open stage which has continuous arcade of Moorish stilted horseshoe arches, topped by corbel table and conical roof. North elevation has four bays of paired pointed lights divided by strip pilasters, triple lights in clerestory above. Institute behind two storeys with additional storey below due to fall in ground towards river. Similar materials to church but much plainer and more austere in character. INTERIOR: Church has four bay nave with gallery to three sides and organ chamber behind preaching desk. Cast-iron columns in two tiers with pointed arches of alternate red and yellow stonework. Roof with wooden ribs supporting boarded ceiling. Gallery with fretted front, blocked off below at west end to provide meeting room. Schoolroom below with ceiling supported by three rows of cast iron columns of which outer two have decorative capitals. Institute has severely plain interiors. HISTORY: Nave and aisles, north-west tower, minister's house to south now demolished and replaced by cafeteria, offices and Open House Centre (1992), schoolroom beneath church, Institute added behind church in 1903. Drawings for this church are in the British Architectural Library (former RIBA). SOURCES: (Jackson N: Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture: Bath: 1991-: 152-164).

Listing NGR: ST7527264480

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Legacy System number:: 511052
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.