Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP2055SW PAYTON STREET
604-1/8/167 (North side)
09/02/72 Baptist Church

GV II

Baptist church. 1835-6. Painted brick with stucco front; slate
roof. Rectangular plan. Simple Greek Revival style. Channelled
rustication to front, and tetrastyle Doric portico, with
unfluted columns in pairs, triglyphs and guttae to
entablature, date to pediment. Entrance has doorcase with
panelled pilaster strips, rosettes and altered pediment;
paired half-glazed doors. 4-window returns have modillioned
brick cornices and tall plain battered windows with sills, and
rubbed brick flat arches over small-paned glazing, 2 with
leaded glazing to left return, end gabled projection; right
return has end round-headed window over entrance. INTERIOR
noted as having aedicule to end, cornice and ceiling roses.
Baptist meetings started in 1826, and a church was organised
in 1832. Part of the early C19 development of northern
Stratford, known as New Town.
(Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and
Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 65).

Listing NGR: SP2027055196

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26483007

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)