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The Old Workshop (formerly Knighton Baptist Chapel) Station Road

A Grade II Listed Building in Knighton, Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.3441 / 52°20'38"N

Longitude: -3.047 / 3°2'49"W

OS Eastings: 328767

OS Northings: 272292

OS Grid: SO287722

Mapcode National: GBR B4.TGHN

Mapcode Global: VH76P.4BHW

Plus Code: 9C4R8XV3+J5

Entry Name: The Old Workshop (formerly Knighton Baptist Chapel) Station Road

Listing Date: 3 May 1985

Last Amended: 3 May 1985

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 9343

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300009343

County: Powys

Community: Knighton (Tref-y-clawdd)

Community: Knighton

Built-Up Area: Knighton

Traditional County: Radnorshire

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Exterior

9343

At corner of Norton Street and Russell Street with doorways to both sides.

Dated 1865 (opened 29 September). Decorated Gothic Church on land purchased from Green Price Family.

Colourwashed rubble walls, dressed quoins, projecting plinth. Slate roof with cresting. Cusped bargeboards to main gable and cross gable to Norton Street. 3-window Russell Street front and cusped quatrefoil at apex above plaque. 4-light Y-traceried windows, the central one raised over boarded entrance. 5-window Norton Street front with advanced gable centre and foliated cornice either side. Hood moulds to similar windows with some stylistically later tracery to raised centre window. Brace plate across central window.

Plaque on Norton Street front reads: "Baptist Church erected 1865, renovated 1922. J E Morris - architect, J Pugh - Minister, J Richards - builder". Plaque on Russell Street front reads: "Baptist Church erected 1865".

Alterations to interior include galleries of 1922.

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