Latitude: 54.2824 / 54°16'56"N
Longitude: -0.4048 / 0°24'17"W
OS Eastings: 503949
OS Northings: 488591
OS Grid: TA039885
Mapcode National: GBR TLMX.4N
Mapcode Global: WHGC0.RMDD
Plus Code: 9C6X7HJW+X3
Entry Name: Albemarle Baptist Church and attached schoolroom
Listing Date: 12 January 1990
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1272776
English Heritage Legacy ID: 447786
ID on this website: 101272776
Location: Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO11
County: North Yorkshire
District: Scarborough
Electoral Ward/Division: Castle
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Scarborough
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Scarborough St Mary
Church of England Diocese: York
Tagged with: Church building
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ALBEMARLE CRESCENT
Albemarle Baptist Church and attached schoolroom
(Formerly listed as Albermarle Baptist Church and attached schoolroom, ALBERMARLE CRESCENT)
GV
II
Baptist church and attached schoolroom, 1867. Designed by Henry Francis Lockwood, in the Gothic Revival style. Dressed stone and white brick with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs, coped gables with kneelers and dentilated eaves. Nave with aisles, transepts and chancel plus south tower.
Street front has triple arched entrance, with circular piers and responds, and polychromatic arches. Three sets of double doors with stained glass. Flanked by single shallow buttresses, with to the left a single lancet and to the right a triple lancet. Above a large Geometrical tracery, six-light pointed arch window, with to the right a triple lancet flanked by single blind lancets topped by a quatrefoil pierced parapet. To the left a small semi-circular apse with a row of seven upper lancets. Above a square tower with a pair of lancets, then a moulded string course, the bell stage has a single lancet to each face topped by a tall crocketed gable. Above a stone octagonal spire. The side aisles each have four, two-light plate tracery lancets. The transepts have large single four-light plate tracery windows. The chancel has three, two-light plate tracery windows.
To the north east the attached schoolroom has a canted south front with three, two-light plate tracery windows with above a moulded brick band and a central, through eaves pointed window of two lights with wooden tracery. Eitherside are single triangular headed three-light casements.
Interior has moulded chancel arch with triple shaft responds, and a fine wooden roof supported on four tall slender columns on each side. C19 wooden pews, pulpit and choir stalls. Sunk in the chancel a tin-lined total immersion font with ashlar pierced parapet.
Listing NGR: TA0394988591
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