Building record 4232/0/8 - The Baptist Chapel

Baptist Chapel built in 1803 and altered by E.F. Law 1864. Brick and stucco with slate roof. Chapel with vestibules at east end. Single storey with gallery. Stuccoed main front by Law has projecting single storey porch with 3-bay open arcade having archivolt and keystones with Doric pilasters at the corners. 3 - entrances. Simple entablature above with dentilled cornice. Above the porch a 3-window range of round headed openings with moulded architraves and keystones.

{1} Baptist Chapel. Datestone 1803 altered by E.F. Law 1864. Brick and stucco with slate roof. Chapel with vestibules at east end. Single storey with gallery. Stuccoed main front by Law has projecting single storey porch with 3-bay open arcade having archivolt and keystones with Doric pilasters at the corners. 3 - entrances. Simple entablature above with dentilled cornice. Above the porch a 3-window range of round headed openings with moulded architraves and keystones. Cast iron window frames with semi-circular glazing bars to the heads. Pairs of pilasters at corners with entablature above with dentilled cornice and open dentilled pediment. Occulus with 4 keystones in pediment. Windows to return wall of east front have arched heads. Large rusticated quoins. South elevation is of chequered brick with 3-window range. Those at first floor are similar to the east front and those at ground floor have moulded stone architraves with square heads. The west elevation has blank openings with pointed heads. Late C19 schoolroom attached to the right of the east front has 2 round headed windows, one breaking forward with a pediment over. Interior: Central arched opening beneath the entrance porch which has an external flight of steps dividing into 2 to serve the gallery. Inscribed tablet "Errected 1803" above the staircase. Gallery with a fielded panelled front on 3 sides of the chapel, the centre section opposite the pulpit breaking forward as a canted bay. The gallery is supported on cast iron columns. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.151).

{3} Brick and slate, built 1803 to replace a chapel of 1777, but with rendered pedimented front added c1864. Gallery around three sides, original date-tablet of 1803 reset at foot of stairs. Monuments: in burial-ground, several early 19th-century slate headstones, some signed Bonsor.

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 15/11 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

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

<3> The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1986, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Northamptonshire & Oxfordshire, p.137 (Report). SNN2902.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Clipston (Photographs). SNN112086.

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