Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9522SW CAMBRAY PLACE 630-1/14/229 (North West side) 14/12/83 Cambray Baptist Church

GV II

Church. 1853-54. Designed by Henry Dangerfield (Borough Surveyor). Cost »3,400. Ashlar with 'French' quoins and brick sides. North Italian Renaissance style. EXTERIOR: pedimented front of 3 principal bays, side bays break forwards slightly and have sub-pediments with small rose windows, with single-storey entrance bay to right. Paired arched doorways in centre with plank doors and plain overlights. Further arched entrance to right a plank door and blind fanlight with cornice over. Paired round-arched windows in 2 tiers to outer bays and triple round-arched window to central upper stage. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: this chapel was taken down and set back several feet in 1853-54 as a result of poor neighbourly relations. (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-: 18; RCHME: Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Gloucestershire: London: 1986-: 75; Blake S: Cheltenham's Churches and Chapels AD 773-1883: Cheltenham: 1979-: 27).



Listing NGR: SO9502222249

External Links

• Wikidata Q26666465

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)