Description

PRESTON

SD5329SE FISHERGATE
941-1/11/106 (North side)
29/01/86 Fishergate Baptist Church

GV II

Baptist chapel. 1858, by James Hibbert. Coursed squared
sandstone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Rectangular
plan at right-angles to street, with south-east tower.
Romanesque style. Two storeys over basement, a gabled
symmetrical facade treated as an open pediment, with floor
with enriched cornice, a wide round-headed arch in the centre
containing coupled Mozarabic-arched doorways (up 8 steps with
wrought-iron railings protecting the basement area), and
coupled round-headed arches each side with round-headed
windows, all these arches with pilastered surrounds and
heavily carved imposts; at 1st floor, a very large wheel
window in the centre flanked by smaller ones, all with
hoodmoulds; enriched cornice to corner pilasters and pediment.
The tower has an enriched doorway at ground floor, single
lancets at 1st floor and coupled lancets at 2nd floor with
shafts (all these in Mozarabic style with carved enrichments),
clock-faces at 3rd floor with enriched hoodmoulds, coupled
ocluli at 3rd floor with similar hoodmoulds and pierced
tracery, a Lombard frieze, prominent cornice with birds
projecting from the corners, and a tall pyramidal roof. East
side wall has (inter alia) 6 tall attenuated pointed arched
2-light windows with twisted shafts. Rear gable has two
2-light mullioned windows and a large wheel window. INTERIOR
not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD5361129267

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Fishergate Baptist Church at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q16931143

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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