Fishergate Baptist Church

PRESTON

SD5329SE FISHERGATE 941-1/11/106 (North side) 29/01/86 Fishergate Baptist Church

GV II

Baptist chapel. 1858, by James Hibbert. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Rectangular plan at right-angles to street, with south-east tower. Romanesque style. Two storeys over basement, a gabled symmetrical facade treated as an open pediment, with floor with enriched cornice, a wide round-headed arch in the centre containing coupled Mozarabic-arched doorways (up 8 steps with wrought-iron railings protecting the basement area), and coupled round-headed arches each side with round-headed windows, all these arches with pilastered surrounds and heavily carved imposts; at 1st floor, a very large wheel window in the centre flanked by smaller ones, all with hoodmoulds; enriched cornice to corner pilasters and pediment. The tower has an enriched doorway at ground floor, single lancets at 1st floor and coupled lancets at 2nd floor with shafts (all these in Mozarabic style with carved enrichments), clock-faces at 3rd floor with enriched hoodmoulds, coupled ocluli at 3rd floor with similar hoodmoulds and pierced tracery, a Lombard frieze, prominent cornice with birds projecting from the corners, and a tall pyramidal roof. East side wall has (inter alia) 6 tall attenuated pointed arched 2-light windows with twisted shafts. Rear gable has two 2-light mullioned windows and a large wheel window. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD5361129267