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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26643888

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)