Description

ST GILES KINGSCOTT
SS 51 NW IN THE WOOD
18/212 Kingscott Baptist Church
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GV II

Baptist church. Late C19, Sunday school added in 1906. Church is plastered stone
rubble, Sunday school is whitewashed brick and has a brick stack; slate roof.
Plan: Church faces south with Sunday school on left (west) end with gable-end stack.
Exterior: Church has a 2-window front, one each side of central pointed arch-headed
doorway which contains a plank door. Windows also have pointed arch heads and
contain simple timber Y-tracery. There is another similar window in the east end and
another on the north side. The Sunday school was built in the same style and has a
2-window front and arch-headed doorway to right. Between the windows there is a
slate plaque inscribed "Baptist Sunday School, 1906, J.R. Way, pastor".
Interior has an open roof of A-frame trusses and lined with pine planks. Most of the
furniture is original; it is pine and plain.
This chapel is one of an attractive group of listed buildings in the hamlet of
Kingscott.

Listing NGR: SS5375018124

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26612111

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)