Burnley Lane Baptist Church Hall

BURNLEY

SD8433SW COLNE ROAD 906-1/10/43 (West side) 22/09/78 Burnley Lane Baptist Church Hall (Formerly Listed as: COLNE ROAD Ebenezer Sunday School)

GV II

Baptist Sunday School, now church hall. Dated 1872 in pediment; altered internally following recent fire damage. Coursed rock-faced sandstone rubble with freestone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan, gable to road. 2 storeys, 1:2:1 windows in 3 bays, symmetrical; with banded corner pilasters, a pedimental gable, and the openings of each bay set in a full-height recess: the centre has coupled round-headed doorways at ground floor with chamfered surrounds, carved spandrels and a cornice on brackets (the left doorway blocked and the other with an altered door), and coupled round-headed windows above, with hollow spandrels, large keystones and a similar cornice; and the outer bays have rectangular windows at ground floor and round-headed windows above, with keystones and hollow spandrels. The pediment contains a large former clock-face (lacking the hands) with faded painted Roman numerals and a circular stone surround with similarly faded lettering: "EBENEZER SCHOOLS / AD 1872". 7-window side walls with square-headed windows at ground floor and round-headed above. INTERIOR not inspected. Forms group with Burnley Lane Baptist Church and Institute to the north (qv), to which it is now linked.

Listing NGR: SD8429833476