Description

ASTON BAMPTON AND SHIFFORD COTE

SP30SE
10/3 Cote Baptist Church
08/10/81 (Formerly listed as Baptist
Chapel)

GV II

Baptist church. Mid C18 (c.1738). Coursed limestone rubble; gabled stone slate
roof, One-cell plan. Georgian style. Gabled 2-storey, 3-window range front.
Semi-circular arch over window with leaded lights, flanked by bracketed flat
hoods and flat stone arches over C18 four-panelled doors. similar first-floor
windows: flat-topped gable surmounted by plaque with side scrolls. Similar
windows to left side wall and rear wall, each of 2-window range. One-storey
range to right, of similar materials with stone end stack, has flat stone arch
over plank door and round-arched windows with leaded lights. Interior: all
fittings installed in 1859. Box pews with hinged doors; gallery with panelled
front supported on corrugated iron posts and reached from 2 sets of C19
quarter-turn stairs. Pulpit with shaped and panelled front and reader's desk,
with lectern, at west end. Memorial tablet to Thomas Dunscombe, pastor, d.1811.
The chapel was founded in 1656.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.557).

Listing NGR: SP3511403097

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Cote Baptist Church at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5175301

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