Building record 1966/9/1 - Baptist Church, Meeting Lane

Baptist chapel built in 1744, extended and altered 1832, 1878, 1889 and 1921. Squared ironstone and coursed ironstone with brick rear gable end and addition. Colleyweston stone slate roof with coped gables and brick lateral stack to left. Gabled end to street has 2 blocked doorways with stone lintels and keystones and central 19th century Gothic style arched doorway with square hood mould and 19th century double board doors and iron gates.

{1} Baptist church. 1744, extended and altered 1832, 1878, 1889 and 1921. Squared ironstone and coursed ironstone with brick rear gable end and addition. Colleyweston stone slate roof with coped gables and brick lateral stack to left. Gabled end to street has 2 blocked doorways with stone lintels and keystones and central C19 Gothic style arched doorway with square hood mould and C19 double board doors and iron gates. 2 bootscrapers. 2 windows with stone lintels and keystones containing paired C19 ovolo- moulded stone arched lights and transom. Flanks have moulded eaves and 2 bays with 2 tiers of similar windows. One-bay addition in stone has similar windows but with gauged stone heads. Later C19 brick addition to rear. Interior has gallery on 3 sides (extended to 4) carried on slender, cast-iron columns, C19 pews and heavy late C19 classical frame to organ. 1832 datestone preserved in lobby.

{2} Baptist church, built 1744 and was extended and altered 1832, 1878, 1889 and 1921.

{3} Baptist Chapel, Meeting Lane. Baptist Chapel erected in 1744 and enlarged in 1832 and 1878. Prior to the erection of the building a number of inhabitants of Burton Latimer were members of the Independant Church at Rothwell. The building is of stone construction and is still in use by the Baptist Church - it was not possible to assess the interior. Adjacent to the building is a small brick structure erected in 1886 which is shown as a Sunday School on the Ordnance Survey map of 1900 and Assembly Room on the map of 1926. This structure still appears to be in use by the Baptist Church.

{4} The chapel, erected in 1744 for a newly formed congregation, was extended to the rear in 1832 and altered and refitted in 1878, 1889 and later. The walls are of coursed brown ironstone and the roof is covered with stone slates. The gabled SW front originally had two doorways and windows above, all with tripartite lintels. In 1878 the doorways were replaced by a central 'Tudor' style entrance with square label; in the blocked former doorways were set recessed bootscrapers with double scraper bars; the windows were given stone mullioned and transomed inner frames, and a shield-shaped tablet was placed in the gable recording dates of erection and alteration. The side walls have moulded stone eaves cornices and two tiers of windows, the original building being of two bays with one bay added in 1832; this date apears on a tablet on the SE wall of the extension.
The interior has a late 19th-century boarded ceiling rising above the tie-beams of the roof-trusses; there is a gallery around four sides. Chair:in vestry, with panelled back and two arms, believed to have belonged to Andrew Fuller, 17th century

{5} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 23/12 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), J12 p.21 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN100754.

<3> Ballinger J., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Burton Latimer (Industrial), (checked) (Digital archive). SNN100500.

<4> The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1986, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Northamptonshire & Oxfordshire, p.137 (Report). SNN2902.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Burton Latimer (Photographs). SNN112160.

<6> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 150 (Book). SNN111989.

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