Brassey Green Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 2021. Chapel.
Brassey Green Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- wild-chimney-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 2021
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brassey Green Baptist Chapel is a Baptist chapel dating before 1742, with a secondary vestry and late 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of plain red brick, with some minor infill, and has a gabled Welsh slate roof, with a lower secondary gabled slate roof over the vestry that merges with the southern slope of the main roof. The gable ends of both roofs have plain timber barge boards.
The chapel is a single-storey L-plan structure. The rectangular main body of the chapel is roughly aligned east to west, and a small single-storey vestry is built against the south elevation. The main entrance is in the west gable, featuring a segmental brick arch lintel, an ashlar stone doorstep, and double timber board doors. A leaded oculus window is set within the apex of the gable above the doorway. Projecting brick pilasters wrap around two sides of the chapel, with simple capitals and horizontal courses of projecting brickwork forming the friezes. A similar pilaster divides the north elevation into two bays, each containing a window with a late 20th-century eight-light timber casement, inward opening with a bottom-hung top panel, and protected by wire mesh. Brick architraves run beneath the roof soffit on either side of the chapel, with plastic rainwater goods supported on a timber soffit board. A single window of a similar design is in the south elevation, and two 6-light windows are set in the east gable.
The vestry, built against the eastern end of the south elevation, has a south-facing gable wall with some patched brickwork. It features secondary ladies' and gentlemen's lavatory doors flanked by small square windows, all set beneath concrete lintels. A rear door, with a segmental brick arch lintel, is in the east elevation of the vestry, abutting against the south-east corner pilaster of the chapel.
Inside, the rectangular auditorium has unadorned painted plaster walls and plain unpainted timber skirting boards, and a 19th-century black and red quarry-tile floor. A plaster ceiling obscures the roof structure, but the base of a central principal rafter truss, with raking struts and a tie beam, rests on projecting side piers. The original auditorium space has been divided by a transverse partition wall, creating a kitchen at the eastern end, entered from the auditorium by a doorway. The kitchen contains 20th-century kitchen units with white tile splash-backs and a modern tiled floor. The southern end of the room extends into the vestry extension, with a rear door in the east wall and the rear wall of the externally accessed lavatories projecting back into the room, creating storage space above within the roof slope.
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