Building record 4717/0/18 - Roade Baptist Church and attached school room, High Street

The chapel was built in 1736-7 for a church formed in c 1688; some alterations were made in the late 18th century and in 1802 a major reconstruction seems to have taken place; it was heightened, re-roofed and the window heads renewed; early 19th century 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.

{1} 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).

{4} Undated photo, also two photos dated 14.01.1994;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 11/135 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F10 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1986, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Northamptonshire & Oxfordshire, p. 146 (Report). SNN2902.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Roade (Photographs). SNN113060.

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