Description

SE22NW LS27 CHURCH STREET
SE2429 MORLEY (north side),
Gildersome

1/15 Gildersome Baptist
30.4.82 Church and attached
Sunday School (formerly
listed as Gildersome
Baptist Church and
Sunday School)

- II

Baptist Church and attached Sunday School. Church dated 1865 Sunday School
added c1887 (foundation stone). Hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings
to facade,rock-faced stone to sides and rear, Welsh blue-slate roof. Church
2 storeys, school single storey. Church: 3-bay symmetrical facade with pedimented
gable. Plinth, channelled quoin pilasters above which rise pairs of fluted
consoles supporting the ends of bracketed cornice and pediment. Large central
portal with channelled pilasters, deep entablature and cornice, double-doors
each of 6 fielded panels with margin glazed overlight. To either side a
segmental-arched window with shouldered jambs and crested lintel. ist-floor
sill band. 3 windows to central bay flanked by single window to outer bays
all with semicircular-arched lintels, imposts and tall keystones and with
pulvinated reveals. Small arched light with keystone in tympanum with date
inscribed on scrolled sill. Anthemion acroterion. Right-hand return has
6 bays with square-headed sashes to ground floor and taller arched windows
to ist floor. Left-hand return has similar windows and lateral stack. Attached
to 4th and 5th bay is school wing: 7 bays with squared ashlar round-arched
windows and oculi above in squared and keyed surrounds. Porch to centre. Coped
gable to left with ball finial. Left gable has tall round arched chamfered panel with
recessed pair of tall margin-glazed windows and oculus. The left gable is extended with
a 4-bay, single-storey wing, and to the rear is another dated 1882.
Interior: chapel: retains original box pews to ground floor and horse-shoe shaped
gallery carried on cast-iron Doric columns the surface decorated as wallpaper. Finely
furnished pulpit with panelled sides and wrought- and cart-iron gallery. Organ by
Fitton and Haley (Stanningley, Leeds) in elaborate classical case with 3 segmental
pediments to lower stage upper pilastered stage with semicircular-arch with impost and
keystone and pulvinated frieze surmounted by triangular pediment. Ribbed panelled
ceiling with central foliated boss. Over upper widows is plaster hoodmould and
impost band.
School room has barrel-vaulted ceiling with king-post roof with brattished
tie-beam and single curved angle-struts. Roundels have stained glass.
An early Baptist site. The burial ground contains a number of good C18 and early
Cl9 tomb stones, earliest 1747.

Listing NGR: SE2411829435

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26587086

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