Description

BURNLEY

SD8432SW BOOT WAY 906-1/20/23 (North side) 02/08/95 Jireh Baptist Church (Formerly Listed as: BOOT WAY Jireh Chapel)

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Baptist chapel. Dated 1853 over doorway; altered. Coursed rock-faced sandstone rubble, slate roof. Small rectangular building at right-angles to the street. Single storey, a 2-window gabled facade, symmetrical, with a plinth and a pedimental gable; a tall central doorway with altered double doors (up one step) and a plain overlight, and a plain surround with a moulded cornice on large fluted consoles; a rectangular plaque above the doorway inscribed: JIREH/ ERECTED A.D./ MDCCCLIII tall segmental-headed windows which have eared architraves and altered glazing; and in the pediment an octagonal stone plaque with radial openings (ventilator). The left return side has 2 tall square-headed windows with altered glazing. INTERIOR not accessible, but reported by estate agent to be just a shell. HISTORY: built by the Strict and Particular Baptists or Gadsbyites, a sect found only in this area.



Listing NGR: SD8424032491

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)