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Former Baptist Chapel and Attached Manse

A Grade II Listed Building in Heptonstall, Calderdale

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7548 / 53°45'17"N

Longitude: -2.0366 / 2°2'11"W

OS Eastings: 397685

OS Northings: 428719

OS Grid: SD976287

Mapcode National: GBR GT60.WQ

Mapcode Global: WHB86.PWDC

Plus Code: 9C5VQX37+W9

Entry Name: Former Baptist Chapel and Attached Manse

Listing Date: 29 April 1982

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1226265

English Heritage Legacy ID: 423457

Also known as: Slack Top Chapel

ID on this website: 101226265

Location: Slack, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, HX7

County: Calderdale

Civil Parish: Heptonstall

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Heptonstall St Thomas a Becket and St Thomas the Apostle

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

Tagged with: Chapel Clergy house

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Description


SD 92NE HEPTONSTALL C.P. HEPTONSTALL SLACK
SD 976287

7/89 Former Baptist Chapel and
attached Manse
29.4.82

G.V. II

Chapel of 1878 with manse of c.1830 attached to chapel by single bay of earlier
chapel house of 1807. Hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings to chapel.
Forms an L-shaped group with manse to the left which is of 2 storeys. Quoins.
3 bays of sashed windows with plain stone surrounds. Doorway in 2nd bay at
junction with earlier bay defined by quoins and gutter brackets. Coped gable to
left hand return wall and 3 tall corniced stacks to ridge. Chapel has
pedimented gabled front. 5 bays articulated by channelled quoin pilasters and
pilaster strips (1 + 3 + 1). Paired arched doorways with archivolte to centre
with to either side 2-light arched windows. 1st floor has 5 single arched
windows. All have hoodmoulds and retain margin glazing over. Over central 3
bays plaque inscribed "MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHAPEL AD 1878". 3 arched lights to
tympanum which has Lombard frieze. Eaves cornice on moulded brackets. 4-bay
return with segmental arched windows to ground floor. Band, semi-circular
arched windows to 1st floor. Canted end under tripartite hipped roof with
stack.


Listing NGR: SD9768528719

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