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Latitude: 50.8272 / 50°49'38"N
Longitude: -0.1614 / 0°9'40"W
OS Eastings: 529590
OS Northings: 104688
OS Grid: TQ295046
Mapcode National: GBR JP3.21D
Mapcode Global: FRA B6KX.6Z0
Plus Code: 9C2XRRGQ+VF
Entry Name: Baptist Chapel and Attached Schoolroom Including Forecourt Wall
Listing Date: 26 February 1991
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1280592
English Heritage Legacy ID: 365548
ID on this website: 101280592
Location: Hove, Brighton and Hove, West Sussex, BN3
County: The City of Brighton and Hove
Electoral Ward/Division: Brunswick and Adelaide
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Brighton and Hove
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Sussex
Church of England Parish: Hove St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
Tagged with: Gothic Revival Protestant church building
HOVE
TQ2904NE HOLLAND ROAD
579-1/19/57 (East side)
26/02/91 Baptist Chapel and attached
Schoolroom including forecourt wall
II
Baptist chapel, school room and forecourt wall. 1887 by John
Wills and paid for by the Congreve family. Transitional Gothic
style.
Coursed Purbeck rubble with freestone dressings; slate roof
with crested ridge tiles.
Chapel and hall form a continuous range along street. From
left a screen wall to passage separating chapel from house
(not included) contains a Caernarvon-arched doorway set in
pentised porch with quatrefoil window over with pilaster
buttress completed by a heavy broached pinnacle abutting
house. The chapel runs parallel to the street: a transept has
two tiers of triple lancets each of two lights flanked by a
single light; then four bays of double lancets in two tiers
each beneath a gablet and separated by buttresses. The main
entrance, a two centred arched doorway with polished Purbeck
shafts occupies the ground storey of a buttressed tower,
standing forward one bay, of four stages with false
battlements and machicolations and with a derived
Rhenish-style pyramidal roof. To the right again a further
screen with doorway links to the schoolroom, gable-end to the
street with triple lancet windows.
Interior: the chapel is open to the roof which has hammerbeams
and collars pierced with trefoils. There are galleries to
three sides carried on cast-iron columns with foliated
capitals. All the original pitch pine pews and desks survive,
as do the fine wrought-iron screens to the galleries and other
fixtures.
(Elleray DR: The Victorian Churches of Sussex: 1981-: 68).
Listing NGR: TQ2959004688
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