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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

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System: LBS

UID: 54772


Asset Groupings

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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


Selected Sources

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Map

National Grid Reference: TL 11760 83016


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