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

• Wikidata Q26585689

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