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Baptist Chapel and Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Swaffham, Norfolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.6511 / 52°39'3"N

Longitude: 0.6882 / 0°41'17"E

OS Eastings: 581943

OS Northings: 309317

OS Grid: TF819093

Mapcode National: GBR Q7Y.SYQ

Mapcode Global: WHKQW.JMYH

Plus Code: 9F42MM2Q+C7

Entry Name: Baptist Chapel and Hall

Listing Date: 19 October 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1269549

English Heritage Legacy ID: 460658

ID on this website: 101269549

Location: Swaffham, Breckland, Norfolk, PE37

County: Norfolk

District: Breckland

Civil Parish: Swaffham

Built-Up Area: Swaffham

Traditional County: Norfolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk

Church of England Parish: Swaffham St Peter and St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Norwich

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Description


TF8109
809-1/5/98

SWAFFHAM
STATION STREET (West side)
Baptist Chapel and Hall

19/10/95

II

Baptist Chapel and attached church hall. 1858. Red brick with gault-brick facade. Slate roof.
EXTERIOR: facade with 2 identical 3-storey towers with, between them, a recessed gabled centre. Towers with pilasters at corners. Each tower has a 4-panelled door under a fanlight without glazing bars. Arched first-floor window with margin glazing, brick corbel courses below lantern top stage: paired corner pilasters and open arched windows to cardinal points. Pyramid roof. Centrepiece with 3 stepped arched windows to each floor. Margin glazing. Gabled roof. Returns have 5 top-hung casements. At west end is a red-brick church hall in a 3-window range of 6/6 horned sashes.
INTERIOR: gallery to east, north and south sides supported on cast-iron twisted columns with Composite capitals. Cast-iron balcony rails and moulded timber handrail. Shallow dished plaster ceiling. Organ gallery at west end. Below is a marble total immersion font with steps right and left. Pulpit and seating intact. 2 closed-string staircases with turned balusters rise to gallery at east end.


Listing NGR: TF8194309317

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