Description

BURNLEY

SD8332SE HAMMERTON STREET
906-1/19/68 (West side)
29/09/77 No.79
and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

II

Methodist chapel, now Baptist church and Sunday School. c1835.
For the Protestant Wesleyan Methodist Society, altered
c1868-71 by the Baptist Society; and Sunday School added in
later C19. Coursed squared dressed sandstone with freestone
dressings and slate roof. Rectangular plan at right-angles to
street; with Sunday School attached to rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3 bays, a symmetrical facade with
narrower pedimented outer bays slightly projected and the
whole in open-pedimental gabled form. The centre has
full-width steps, and coupled entrances and windows in a
2-storeyed round-headed architrave which has superimposed
pilasters, a moulded cornice over the ground floor and a
moulded head with a panelled keystone: the doorways have
moulded surrounds, recessed panelled doors and overlights with
coloured margin panes, and the windows above are sashed, with
similar margin panes. The outer bays have tall 8-pane
round-headed windows with coloured panes and margins, and
panelled keystones.
No.79 adjoining to the left, breaking forwards and slightly
overlapping the left bay, has a 3-storey single-window gabled
facade with a doorway to the right in a plain surround and
windows with raised sills, plain surrounds and altered
glazing. The side walls of the church have tall round-headed
windows (5 on the north side).
At the rear, the school, built at right-angles, has a 2-storey
3-window gabled facade with (inter alia) a large cross-window
in the centre of the upper floor.
INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD8387132354

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537395

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