Blackley Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1982. Church.
Blackley Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-mortar-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1982
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ELLAND BLACKLEY ROAD SE 101199 (west side) 4/6 Blackley Baptist Church 29.4.82 II
Large chapel on a prominent hilltop site. 1878. Dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings. Tall 2-storey pediment-gabled front. Plinth string and sill courses, deeply moulded pediment. Archivolt arched windows, with marginal glazing, grouped to centre above paired doorways with archivolt arched fanlights framed by engaged Roman Doric columns with common entablature.
Interior with continuous curve-ended raked gallery on cast iron columns with foliate caps. Stairs with richly turned balusters and newels rising to both sides of deeply panelled pulpit. Moulded beam ceiling with rose vent to each bay. Downstairs the box pews are focused to front in hemicycle. Built to seat a congregation of around 1600. The earlier 1789 chapel remains to the west as the caretaker's house.
Listing NGR: SE1015819910
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