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Latitude: 51.3775 / 51°22'39"N
Longitude: -2.1422 / 2°8'31"W
OS Eastings: 390200
OS Northings: 164286
OS Grid: ST902642
Mapcode National: GBR 1S3.K7N
Mapcode Global: VH96Q.TMCV
Plus Code: 9C3V9VH5+24
Entry Name: Baptist Church
Listing Date: 29 September 1950
Last Amended: 13 February 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1021744
English Heritage Legacy ID: 314354
ID on this website: 101021744
Location: Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Melksham
Built-Up Area: Melksham
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Melksham
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Protestant church building
ST 9063 MELKSHAM OLD BROUGHTON ROAD
(west side)
5/137 Baptist Church
(formerly listed as Baptist Church
Sunday School)
29.9.50
II
Baptist Church. 1776, restored 1879. Rubblestone, double Roman
tiled (steeply pitched) hipped roof. Square plan. 2-storey, 3-
window. Original entrance door is on right return from street. 6-
panelled double doors in staff-moulded case with pulvinated frieze
and pediment on pilasters. Either side is sash in beaded case.
First floor has three round-headed 4-pane sashes in beaded cases.
Right and left returns have two sashes in ground floor in beaded
cases and two 4-pane round-headed sashes to first floor. Attached
to left return is C19 entrance hall and sunday school. Late C18
cartouche is on left return.
Interior: Galleries on three sides, of 1795, have elaborate cast
iron balconies supported on cast iron columns with composite
capitals. Pews and pulpit are wooden and date from restoration of
1879. Ceiling has plaster cornice and central rosette with
acanthus leaves. Marble wall tablet to Ledyard family of 1790, and
one to Joshua Russell, 1840 in classical style. Removal of
Victorian pews proposed in 1984.
(N. Pevsner, Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975).
Listing NGR: ST9020064286
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