Description

BURFORD AND UPTON WITNEY STREET
AND SIGNET (South side)
SP2512 (En1argement) Burford Baptist Church
7/256
12.9.55

GV II

Non-conformist chapel. Present church 1804, restored 1886 and later.
Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Flank to street with 4 round arched
windows to road. Gable end to East has central double flush-panelled door
with bracketed hood over, flanking arched windows and a similar window
above, all windows with small lozenge leaded casements. Single-storey T-
plan wing to rear with glazing bar sash windows. Contemporary gatepiers
to churchyard:stone, lozenge plan, ogee capped.
Interior: reused late C18 fielded panels to gallery at west end; late C19
pulpit with shallow arched recess behind preachers seat; early C17
singlers desk (not in situ). An C18 memorial testifies to earlier chapel
on this site.
C.F. Stell; Non-Conformist Churches and Chapels in Central England
(RCHM).

Listing NGR: SP2533812122

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26556746

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)