General Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1966. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
General Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- high-forge-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1966
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
QUORN
SK 51 NE MEETING STREET (South Side) 3/79 1.6.66 General Baptist Chapel
II
Baptist Chapel. Dated 1770 and early C20. Red brick and plain tile and Swithland slate roofs with a brick left end truncated stack, rear stack and metal central louvre stack to Chapel. 3 ranges, chapel to left, former Sunday School set back in centre, and early C20 extension, with hipped roof to right. Chapel of 2 storeys of 3 leaded light windows with cambered lintels : 2-light, 3-light, 2-light. Tablet under central window inscribed "General Baptist Chapel MDCCLXX'. Below is a large C20 porch. On right end a 3-light with 2-light over. Central range of 3 storeys of 3 3-light windows with cambered lintels. Range to right of 1 storey of leaded light windows with mullions and transoms : a 5-light to front and 2 2-lights on left side. Lean-to on right end. Interior has original gallery with panelled front on iron posts. 2 wooden Doric pillars support roof. These were inserted when the Chapel was extended in 1825, and were hand-turned in the Churchyard outside. Wall tablet to Rev. Benjamin Pollard, 1818.
Listing NGR: SK5579016215
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