Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9173NE STATION ROAD
930-1/6/214 Baptist Church and attached walls
22/06/78 and piers
(Formerly Listed as:
STATION HILL
Baptist Church)

II

Baptist church. c1856. Limestone ashlar with slate roof and
moulded kneelers to gable ends. Classical style. Rectangular
plan with lower rear block and single-storey lean-tos to the
rear of each side.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. An
entablature and high pediment span the facade which is
articulated by pilasters with moulded plinths and capitals.
The 1st floor has eared and shouldered architraves to fixed
16-pane windows, tall blind windows to the ground floor flank
double doors in a moulded architrave with a shallow hood on
consoles.
The returns have three 16-pane segmental-arched windows to the
1st floor and similar flat-arched windows to the ground floor.
The church hall to the rear, with an entrance on St Mary's
Place, is lower. It has a small corbelled niche to the apex of
the gable, three 9-pane windows to the 1st floor and three
16-pane windows to the ground floor. The lean-to to the north
has a C19 4-panel door.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: ashlar walls approx 1m high are attached
to each rear lean-to, they flank the site and terminate in
ashlar piers with plinths, recessed panels to the sides,
cornices and block tops, approx 1.5m high. A plinth wall with
C20 railings sweeps downhill from left to right in 3 stages to
each side of central C20 gates with similar piers.
(Chamberlain, Joseph A: Chippenham: Chippenham: 1976-: 143).

Listing NGR: ST9190773530

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558283

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)