Description

LAXFIELD THE STREET
TM 27 SE

9/66 Baptist Chapel
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GV II

Baptist chapel. 1810; enlarged 1850; renovated and re-seated 1897. Red brick
with white brick facade. First floor brick band. Hipped 2-span roof of
glazed black pantiles. 2 storeys. Symmetrical facade. 2 slightly inset
bays, each with a flush-frame sash window with small panes. Below are
matching doorways, each with 6-panel door, moulded architrave and a good semi-
circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars. Tall semi-circular headed
window to centre, below which is a tablet commemorating the martydom of John
Noyes near this spot in 1557. 3-bay returns, the bays inset, with 2-light
casement windows under flat arches. Gallery around 3 sides supported on
slender cast iron columns. Most of gallery benches are original, otherwise
seating and pulpit date from 1897.

Listing NGR: TM2936972362

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26284280

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)