Building record 5447/0/17 - Eastcote Baptist Chapel, Gayton Road

The chapel was built in 1838.

{1} Identified by South Northamptonshire Council as being a building of historic and/or architectural significance.

{2} A level II historic building building recording survey was undertaken prior to conversion to residential use. It was constructed in 1838 in orange-red brick with a pitched slate roof and a projecting gabled entrance porch with bargeboarded eaves. Attached to the north-east end of the chapel is a single-storey rectangular gabled building which was originally built in 1870-71 as a Sunday School.
Internally, the chapel is of a single-cell 'preaching-box' type. Few fixtures or fittings of historical or architectural interest were noted.

<1> SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNCIL, 2012, South Northamptonshire Council Survey of Significant Historic Buildings, (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN108984.

<2> Priestley, S, 2022, Archaeological Standing Building Recording: Eastcote Baptist Chapel, Gayton Road, Eastcote, Northamptonshire, NN12 8NG, https://doi.org/10.5284/1111103 (Report). SNN113603.

<3> Border Archaeology, 2023, Images from Historic Building Recording Work at Eastcote Baptist Chapel, Pattishall, May 2022, https://doi.org/10.5284/1102124 (Digital archive). SNN114697.

<4> Crank, N. (Editor), 2023, South Midlands Archaeology (53), P. 55 (Journal). SNN116414.

Record last edited

Jul 23 2024 2:54PM