Description

LONGWOOD GATE 1. 5113 (east side) SE 1017 & SE 1117 Longwood 26/1100 Longwood Baptist Sunday School II and Meeting Rooms

2. Baptist School and Meeting House. 1837. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 8 bays. Plinth band. Gabled porch to right of centre has step up to double door under fanlight in round-arched quoined surround with voussoirs aligned to courses and tabled keystone; oval plaque above doorway inscribed "LONGWOOD BAPTIST SCHOOL AND MEETING HOUSE"; moulded kneelers, coping and finial to gable; to returns, a round-arched window with imposts and moulded gutter brackets. Windows on ground floor of meeting house are sashes with margin lights with raised cills and lintel band. 1st-floor windows are round-arched with horizontal glazing bars, raised cills and imposts. Coved gutter brackets on table. Inturned kneelers, coping. Stack to left gable. Right return: small round-arched window in gable. The building was used as the first meeting place for the Mechanics' Institute c1845 and it also housed the Reading Room and News Room and the Discussion Society.

Listing NGR: SE1055117085

External Links

• Wikidata Q26640016

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