Description

KING'S LYNN

TF6220SW BLACKFRIARS STREET
610-1/8/16 (North side)
07/06/72 Stepney Chapel
(Formerly Listed as:
BLACKFRIARS STREET
Stepney Baptist Church)

II

Built as Baptist Church, now auction rooms. 1841. Built for
Rev. JT Wigner, who had attended Stepney College. Gault brick
with rendered and whitewashed dressings. Slate roof. 2
storeys. Plain brick pilasters to each side of facade lead
into a pediment. Group of 3 windows to each floor brought
forward. Ground-floor ones have shouldered heads and glazing
bars, upper ones have oculi in heads and rounded arches. One
C20 door right and left in heavy surrounds. Above each is a
2-light window with a roundel in the heads. In pediment is a
truncated cornice with datestone: 1841. Gabled roof. East and
west returns have 2-light transomed casements, the lower
lights with arched heads, above the transoms with roundels.
INTERIOR not inspected, but balcony understood to be intact.

Listing NGR: TF6208720005

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585689

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)