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Carey Baptist Chapel

A Grade II Listed Building in Preston, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7607 / 53°45'38"N

Longitude: -2.694 / 2°41'38"W

OS Eastings: 354343

OS Northings: 429592

OS Grid: SD543295

Mapcode National: GBR TBR.M8

Mapcode Global: WH85M.LQBV

Plus Code: 9C5VQ864+79

Entry Name: Carey Baptist Chapel

Listing Date: 20 December 1991

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1207315

English Heritage Legacy ID: 392113

Also known as: Carey Baptist Church, Preston

ID on this website: 101207315

Location: Preston, Lancashire, PR1

County: Lancashire

District: Preston

Electoral Ward/Division: Town Centre

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Preston

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Preston St John and St George the Martyr

Church of England Diocese: Blackburn

Tagged with: Chapel Protestant church building

Description


PRESTON

SD5429NW POLE STREET 941-1/10/222 (West side) Carey Baptist Chapel

GV II

Chapel for Methodists of Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, now Baptist church. 1826, altered. Brick, with scored stucco facade, slate roof. Rectangular plan with short lean-to extension at west end. Gable to road. Two storeys, a symmetrical 3-window facade, with corner pilasters, impost band to ground floor, sill-band to 1st floor, and gable treated as a pediment. The ground floor has 3 doorways, the centre segmental headed with panelled double-doors under a 2-light fanlight, the outer round-headed with panelled doors under fanlights with radiating glazing bars, and all with moulded surrounds to the heads including keystones; the 1st floor has round-headed windows, all with coloured margin panes and moulded surrounds to the heads with imposts and keystones; the pediment has a central tablet lettered "CAREY BAPTIST" flanked by circular vents. The side walls have tall segmental-headed windows with coloured margin panes (formerly 4 in each side but the 4th on the south side now covered by C20 addition). INTERIOR: former horseshoe gallery now reduced to curved gallery at east end, with panelled front and carried on slender cast-iron columns; dentilled cornice and panelled ceiling; moulded surrounds to windows; Corinthian pilastered architrave to opening at west end, with modillioned cornice and frieze lettered "ONE LORD ONE FAITH ONE BAPTISM".

Listing NGR: SD5434329592

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