Description

TL 3058-3158 CAXTON ERMINE STREET
(East Side)

12/67 Baptist Chapel

GV II

Chapel. 1845, Sunday School and vestry added to east 1874. Yellow gault
brick with slate roof; end stack to east gable. Single storeyed with two
galleries, and two storeyed rear extension. Gable to street with symmetrical
facade. Pilastered quoins, plastered brick bands at eaves and sill height.
Plain moulded stone architraves to doorway with rectangular fanlight and
double panelled doors, and to two gallery windows with twelve-paned hung
sashes. Interior: One open, and partly closed galleries to east and west.
Pine boarded ceiling; pine seating. Wall memorial of white and black marble
with painted black inscription to the founder Samuel Fordham (1794-1876).
The first meetings were held in the barns of Red Lion Farm.

R.C.H.M. West Cambs., p37, mon.2
V.C.H., Vol. V, p35
Chapel minute books. C.R.O.

Listing NGR: TL3043458181

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26456388

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)