List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: BAPTIST CHURCH
List Entry Number: 1222773
Location
BAPTIST CHURCH, MAIN STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Cambridgeshire
District: Huntingdonshire
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Great Gidding
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 09-Apr-1987
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 54772
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List Entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
The following building shall be downgraded to Grade II:-
TL 1083 GREAT GIDDING MAIN STREET
(south east side)
13/53 Baptist Church
II*
and the list entry shall be amended to read:
TL 1083 GREAT GIDDING MAIN STREET
(south east side)
13/53 Baptist Church
II
Chapel. Dated 1790 on stone plaque with C19 addition to rear. Coursed
limestone rubble with hipped slated roof; C19 red brick and pantiled
roof. One galleried storey. Symmetrical entrance facade of three
'bays'. Openings with flat dressed stone arches and plain key blocks.
Two plain C20 doors with rectangular fanlights, deeply recessed with
central sixteen-paned hung sash window, three similar slightly
recessed first floor windows. Two plain stone plaques between first
floor windows with inscriptions painted black 'The building Erected
by Subscription' and 'For a Place of Worship 1790'. (Dated
inscriptions on side walls.) Interior: Gallery on three sides
supported on slender columns, gallery seating simple pine benches; two
gallery staircases. In 1992 the box-pews, rostrum and brick floor were
removed and the C19 emersion bath was altered. The original chapel was
founded at Winwick in 1780.
Minute books and registers from 1811. HRO
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TL 1083 GT GIDDING MAIN STREET
(South East side)
13/53 Baptist Church
II*
Chapel. Dated 1790 on stone plaque with C19 addition to rear. Coursed
limestone rubble with hipped slated roof; C19 red brick and pantiled roof.
One galleried storey. Symmetrical entrance facade of three 'bays'. Openings
with flat dressed stone arches and plain key blocks. Two plain C20 doors with
rectangular fanlights, deeply recessed with central sixteen-paned hung sash
window, three similar slightly recessed first floor windows. Two plain stone
plaques between first floor windows with inscriptions painted black 'The
building Erected by Subscription' and 'For a Place of Worship 1790'. (Dated
inscriptions on side walls). Interior: Gallery on three sides supported on
slender columns, gallery seating simple pine benches; two gallery staircases.
Boxed pews with fielded panels complete. Pulpit with reeded panels enlarged
from original. Original brick floors. Emersion bath C19. The original
chapel was founded at Winwick in 1780.
Minute books and registers from 1811. HRO
Listing NGR: TL1176083016
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Map
National Grid Reference: TL 11760 83016
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