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Albemarle Baptist Church and attached schoolroom

A Grade II Listed Building in Scarborough, North Yorkshire

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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

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/09/2020

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ALBEMARLE CRESCENT
Albemarle Baptist Church and attached schoolroom

(Formerly listed as Albermarle Baptist Church and attached schoolroom, ALBERMARLE CRESCENT)

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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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