Description

LEEDS

SE3131 LOW ROAD, Hunslet
714-1/49/870 (North East side)
04/07/96 Hunslet Baptist Tabernacle

II

Baptist chapel and vestries. Built 1835-37, altered and
enlarged c1880. Brick, rendered to front, hipped slate roof,
dentilled eaves to front. Almost square 4 x 4 bays on steeply
sloping site with lower 2-storey bay to rear.
Central single-storey porch with two 6-panel doors and
semicircular overlight, cornice and blocking course. Flanking
and first-floor round-headed windows, keystones to ground
floor, moulded impost and sill bands. Left and right returns
not rendered, brick arches and stone sills to windows.
INTERIOR: not seen but contains C19 gallery and fittings.
One of the earliest Nonconformist chapels in the area; 93
people attended it in 1845; the attendance figures rose from
142 to 230 between 1880 and 1886, the period when alterations
were made.
(Fraser D (Ed): A History of Modern Leeds: 1980-: 260).

Listing NGR: SE3126531797

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26655924

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas