Aenon Baptist Chapel

BURNLEY

SD8432SW RED LION STREET 906-1/20/118 (South side) 29/09/77 Aenon Baptist Chapel

GV II

Baptist chapel; unoccupied at time of survey (1991). Dated 1851 on frieze; by James Green of Todmorden; altered. Sandstone ashlar (sides and rear of coursed squared sandstone); hipped slate roofs. Classical style. Rectangular plan, plus a small projecting wing on the left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over a basement treated as a plinth, 3 bays, symmetrical (except for the wing), the centre wider and breaking forwards slightly; with channelled rustication to the ground floor, a plain band, raised quoins to the upper floor which is slightly set back, a string course to the frieze which is inscribed in the centre "ANNO DOMINI AENON MDCCCLI", and modillioned eaves with a moulded cornice. At basement level the centre has a sunk area with a central square porch (now surmounted by a statue), flanked by flights of steps rising to the main doorways in the outer bays. The ground floor has round-headed openings: arcaded windows to the centre, with radiating glazing bars, panelled aprons and moulded impost bands, and doorways in the outer bays with panelled double doors and cavetto surrounds, all these openings having stepped voussoirs with keystones. In the centre of the 1st floor is a tripartite window which has a tetrastyle Corinthian architrave with pilasters and engaged columns, and a balustraded pseudo-balcony and a pediment to the centre light; and in each outer bay a segmental-headed window in a shouldered architrave with moulded sills, panelled apron and a keystone. To the left the added projecting wing, of one bay and 2 low storeys, has segmental-headed openings: a doorway to the front, a window above this, and one window in each side, all with simplified shouldered architraves. The 5-window right-hand return wall, with rock-faced masonry at ground floor and a band carried round from the front, has windows which are square-headed at basement level, round-headed at ground floor and segmental-headed at 1st floor. The rear has 2 pairs of coupled windows at basement level flanked by doorways, a tripartite window at ground floor, a Venetian window at 1st floor, and 4 square attic windows. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD8421732393