Description

QUORN

SK 51 NE MEETING STREET (South Side)
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1.6.66 General Baptist Chapel

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Baptist Chapel. Dated 1770 and early C20. Red brick and plain tile
and Swithland slate roofs with a brick left end truncated stack, rear
stack and metal central louvre stack to Chapel. 3 ranges, chapel to
left, former Sunday School set back in centre, and early C20 extension,
with hipped roof to right. Chapel of 2 storeys of 3 leaded light windows
with cambered lintels : 2-light, 3-light, 2-light. Tablet under central
window inscribed "General Baptist Chapel MDCCLXX'. Below is a large
C20 porch. On right end a 3-light with 2-light over. Central range of
3 storeys of 3 3-light windows with cambered lintels. Range to right
of 1 storey of leaded light windows with mullions and transoms : a 5-light
to front and 2 2-lights on left side. Lean-to on right end. Interior
has original gallery with panelled front on iron posts. 2 wooden Doric
pillars support roof. These were inserted when the Chapel was extended
in 1825, and were hand-turned in the Churchyard outside. Wall tablet
to Rev. Benjamin Pollard, 1818.

Listing NGR: SK5579016215

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Quorn Baptist Church at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7272860

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)