Description

SO 60 SW
7/107

LYDNEY
HIGH STREET
(west side)
Baptist Chapel

II

Chapel. Mid C19. Smooth rendered, asbestos-cement slate roof to pedimented
front and hipped back. A simple plan, with school room or rooms attached at
back, 3-bay front with heavy cornice on floral brackets returned at ends and
central pediment with florid cartouche, windows tall, narrow arched 2-light
casements with Y-tracery and horizontal glazing bars in plat-band surrounds
to impost blocks, keystone with moulded impost. Central projecting porch with
steep pediment with 'Baptist Chapel' in 'rococco' scrolled surround, central
pair plank doors in surround as for windows, up 3 steps. Sides 3-windowed,
sashes with 6+9 panes under interlaced Y-tracery and in simplified surrounds
as at front, all to stooled cills.
Interior has plain ceiling with rosette, panelled gallery front, pitch-pine
pews. Simple, but notable in its context.

Listing NGR: SO6307603009

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26481853

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)