Listed Building: Roade Baptist Church and attached school room (1040937)

Non-conformist (Baptist) chapel. Partly of 1736-7; altered in late C18; heightened, re-roofed and the window heads renewed in 1802; early C19 schoolroom and vestry. Coursed limestone rubble with limestone dressings, slate roof, hipped to left, with lower 2-storeyed schoolroom and vestry to right. Chapel, 2 storeys, 2-window range. 4-panel doors with overlights to left and right of central ground floor 12-pane sash window. Similar sashes to first floor either side of central (late C19) clock face in circular moulded stone surround. Doors and windows have stone lintels. Attached storeyed, 1-window range slightly set back with similar doors and sashes. Rear with six 12- and 18-pane hornless sash windows. Left return with oculus to gable wall. Right return with horned sash windows. Interior: Gallery on slender columns; plain benches throughout (with planked backs). Baptistry for full immersion stands forward of site of communion table. References: RCHM(E), An Inventory of Non-conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England (1986), p.146; E A Payne, Roade Baptist Church 1688-1938 (1938).

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