Description

SD 82 SW BACUP BRANDWOOD ROAD Brandwood

6/13 Waterbarn Baptist Chapel - - II

Baptist chapel, dated 1847 in gable. Sandstone ashlar facade, otherwise coursed rubble, slate roof. Rectangular plan (school attached at south end not included in the item). Two storeys; symmetrical facade in simple classical style has pilastered corners, 1st floor sill band, string course, moulded cornice and pedimented gable: at ground floor 2 doorways with panelled doors, rectangular fanlights, cornices on brackets, and between them 2 round-headed windows; at 1st floor a Venetian window flanked by round-headed windows, and in the pediment of the gable a tablet lettered BAPTIST CHAPEL 1847 protected by a cornice on brackets. Side walls have 7 windows on each floor, rectangular at ground floor and round-headed at 1st floor, all with altered glazing. Interior: horseshoe-shaped gallery supported on slim iron columns with palm capitals (but now ceiled) ; segmentally-curved box pews.

Listing NGR: SD8458021626

External Links

• Wikidata Q26643888

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas