Description

In the entry for:

TL 0121 NE St Mary's Street

1/134 Strict Baptist Chapel

the address shall be amended to read:
St Mary's Gate
Strict Baptist Chapel

The following building shall be added:

TL 0121 NE ST MARY'S STREET

1/134 Strict Baptist Chapel

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Strict Baptist Chapel. Built 1849 on site of earlier building. Flemish bond
yellow brick; gabled slate roof; brick rear end stack. Classical style. Gabled
3-bay front framed by clasped pilasters and dentilled cornice; gauged red brick
semi-circular arches over 30-pane sashes flanking blind window set above classi-
cal doorway with pilasters and cornice. 3-bay side walls with similar sashes to
front and flat brick arches over 2-light casements with glazing bars to rear and
door to rear left. Interior: complete set of furnishings with carved bench ends
to pews, and gallery to three sides with panelled balcony fronts and dados and
reached by two straight-flight stairs with winders; box pews to front flank
pulpit with turned balusters and fret-cut brackets to steps. Monuments: wall
tablets to Lawrence Chesher, Minister (d.1819) and wife Mary (d.1817) and to
Mary Hudrial of Totternhoe (d.1808).
History: the first meeting-house in St Mary's Street was built in 1708.

Listing NGR: TL0179621687

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26408389

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6