Building record 3656/7/1 - Baptist Chapel, Gold Street

Baptist Chapel. Datestone 1786. Regular coursed lias with slate roof. Single-unit chapel with vestibule. South elevation: 2-storey, 3-window range at first floor. Central window at ground floor is flanked by pair of entrances with 8-panelled double doors under wood lintels.

{1} Baptist Chapel. Datestone 1786. Regular coursed lias with slate roof. Single-unit chapel with vestibule. South elevation: 2-storey, 3-window range at first floor. Central window at ground floor is flanked by pair of entrances with 8-panelled double doors under wood lintels. 3-light casement windows have moulded wood mullions with transom to ground-floor window all under wood lintels. Hipped roof with central copper vent. One tall arch-headed window to west elevation and 2 similar to south.

{3} Baptist chapel built in 1786, replacing an earlier building of 1717.

{4} Photo; The church which originated c1700 was meeting by 1763 in a converted barn. The present site was acquired in 1786 and the meeting-house erected in that year. A Sunday-school of 1899 adjoins to the east. The interior was drastically refitted in 1886; it has a south gallery; east and west galleries have been removed.

{6} Mild Art Nouveau glass which is probably 1903 when Cleaver & Sons refurbished the chapel. Alongside Sunday School of 1899, also by Cleaver & Sons. Red brick with bands of yellow. Three tall round-arched windows under a pediment.

{7} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 11/216 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G02 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN44900.

<3> Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group, 1996-2013, Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group Newsletter, Issue 119 p.10 (checked) (Newsletter). SNN55360.

<4> The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1986, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Northamptonshire & Oxfordshire, p. 148 (Report). SNN2902.

<5> Chambers, RF, 1963, The Strict Baptist Chapels of England: The Chapels of the Industrial Midlands, p. 85-6 (Book). SNN110921.

<6> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 634 (Book). SNN111989.

<7> Photographs of buildings in Walgrave (Photographs). SNN114090.

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