Ministers House Stanningley Baptist Church

LS28 RICHARDSHAW LANE SE23SW PUDSEY (west side), Stanningley 4/148 Stanningley Baptist 30.4.82 Church and No 171 (attached Minister's House) (formerly listed as Stanningley Baptist Church and Minister's - House

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Baptist Church and attached Minister's house. Dated 1827. Hammer-dressed stone, Welsh blue-slate roofs. 2 storeys. Chapel: almost square in plan. 5-bay symmetrical gabled facade. Plinth, band, eaves band defining pediment gable. Bays 2 and 4 have doorways with overlights and cornices on brackets. Bays 1, 3 and 5 and all those above have windows, with margin glazing, thin lintels and slightly projecting sills. Central corniced date plaque. Set in tympanum is an oeil-de-boeuf. Coped gable. Left and right returns have 5 bays of similar windows to each floor. Attached and set back to right is Minister's house: doorway with monolithic jambs to left of 2 bays of windows with lintels and sills (all blocked). Gutter brackets. Coped gable with tall end stack to right.

Interior: Chapel: corner dog-leg stairs have slender turned balusters. Good raised-and-fielded-panel gallery carried on slender cast-iron columns, canted at entrance end. Original box pews. Semi-octagonal pulpit (mid C19) with original stairs.

Unoccupied at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: SE2205934155