Building record 1842/5 - Thrapston Baptist Church

Baptist church in Huntingdon Road. Datestone 1787, with mid 19th century extension to rear. Stone with brick facades and lead and slate roofs. Single-unit, single-storey chapel with gallery and 2-storey school room to rear. Main front is a 5-window range at first floor of restored cross casements with plain arch heads and keyblocks.

{1} Baptist Chapel erected in 1787. Good brick builidng to accommodate 600 people. The building is very plain and of red brick with either two or three storeys; large and barn like in appearance. Not possible to see the building from street level as other structures stand in front of it.The building is still in religious useage. Film 4, photo 6,7.

{2} Baptist church. Datestone 1787, with mid C19 extension to rear. Stone with brick facades and lead and slate roofs. Single-unit, single-storey chapel with gallery and 2-storey school room to rear. Main front is a 5-window range at first floor of restored cross casements with plain arch heads and keyblocks. 2 similar windows to centre of ground floor are flanked by 6-panel doors with similar arch-head fanlights with keyblocks. Similar arch-head opening to far left gives access to through passage to rear. Flat roof not visible behind rebuilt brick parapet. Partially legible inscribed tablet with date, to centre of parapet. Mid C19 school room extension to rear. Interior of chapel has gallery on 3 sides with fielded panelled front with reeded frieze below. Square reeded supporting columns. Interior partially remodelled mid C20. Various late C18 and C19 inscribed marble tablets around the wall including Mary and Thos. Ekins died 1794 and Rev. Reynold Hogg died 1843, who was the first minister and first treasurer of the Baptist Missionary Society. The chapel opened on March 27th 1788. The former Manse, No.31, (q.v.), is attached to the left of the main front of the Church.

{3} Datestone, with mid 19th century extension to rear. Single-unit, single-storey chapel with gallery and 2 storey school room to rear is a 19th century extension. Main front is a 5-window range at first floor. Manse is attached to the left of the main front of the church.

{4} A Sunday School adjoins the Baptist Chapel.

{6} Undated photo;

<1> Ballinger J., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Industrial Period, (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN4.

<2> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 16/180 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<3> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G08 p.85 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<4> Ballinger J., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Industrial Period, (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN4.

<5> The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1986, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Northamptonshire & Oxfordshire, p. 148 (Report). SNN2902.

<6> Photographs of buildings in Thrapston (Photographs). SNN113630.

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Jul 6 2022 11:28AM