Building record 272/5/1 - Baptist Chapel & School Room, High Street

Baptist chapel at Weston registered in 1791. North-east front of three bays with a central doorway. Walls of squared stone and a hipped slate roof. The walls appear to have been heightened in the early 19th century, and a brick-fronted wing was added to the north-west in the same period.

{1} Baptist chapel. Late C18. Ironstone ashlar. Pyramid shaped slate roof. One storey, 3 bays. Central doorway with wood surround; 6-panel double door with overlight and arch timber hood on brackets. Long 40-pane sash window with plain stone frame on either side. Interior: Victorian fittings, including gallery around 3 sides with panelled front framing band of filigree ironwork. School to right, probably early C19. Rendered walls, slate roof, 2 storeys, 2 bays. Entrance in left bay has wood lintel and 6-panel door with overlight. Two 20-pane sash windows to right. 2-light transom casement windows with wood lintels on first floor. Interior not inspected. The chapel is noted as having been built in 1791.

{4} The Baptist congregation in Weston existed in the early 18th century as part of a church embracing several other societites in the vicinity. The present chapel, registered July 1791 and described as 'newly erected', has walls of squared stone and a hipped slate roof. The walls appear to have been heightened in the early 19th century and a brick-fronted wing to the north-west was added at that period. The interior, refitted in the early 19th century and later, has galleries around three sides with late 19th-century open iron fronts; the north-east gallery is the earliest and has a vaulted ceiling below.

{6} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 4/205 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F03 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.452-8 (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1986, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Northamptonshire & Oxfordshire, p. 152 (Report). SNN2902.

<5> Coleman, T, 1853, Memorials of the Independent Churches of Northamptonshire, p. 246-54 (Book). SNN54569.

<6> Photographs of buildings in Weston and Weedon (Photographs). SNN114034.

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Dec 21 2023 11:33AM