Building record 5081/8/1 - Kingsthorpe Baptist Chapel, High Street

A Baptist chapel, built in 1835, with alterations made in 1892-1893. The 2-storey chapel is built of squared ironstone in a Neo-Classical style. The front is of ashlar and features a pediment with a later closed porch added in 1893. The main pediment includes a datestone bearing the legend "erected 1835". The gabled roof is covered with slate. The sash windows to the front and sides have semicircular arches.

{1} 1835 in Neo-classical style. Ashlar pedimented front. 2 storeys with single projecting closed porch of 1893.

{3} Walls of squared ironstone and slated roof. Gabled front dated 1835 with wide porch added 1892 replacing two doorways with window between; two round-arched windows above former entrances and lunette ventilator in gable. Side walls of two bays extended to rear. (Demolition proposed c1976).

{4} Classical and of the familiar three-bay form with round-arched windows. The interior and porch of 1892 by Ingman & Shaw. Sunday School of 1881 on the left similarly with round-arched windows on the first floor.

{5} Chapel, High Street Kingsthorpe, Northampton, SP 7502 6333

{7} Photo dated 1990;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 9/376 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), District of Northampton, 22-JAN-1976, H14 p.90 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN1000.

<3> The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1986, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Northamptonshire & Oxfordshire, p. 145 (Report). SNN2902.

<4> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 496 (Book). SNN111989.

<5> Ordnance Survey Map (Scale/date), 1:10000, 1976 (Map). SNN112944.

<6> Undated, Baptist Chapel, High Street, Kingsthorpe, Northampton, BF108273 (Archive). SNN113702.

<7> Photographs of buildings in Northampton (Photographs). SNN114989.

Record last edited

Apr 19 2023 12:33PM