Baptist Chapel

TEMPLE GRAFTON

SP15SW VILLAGE STREET 1931-1/3/80 (South side (off)) 02/08/72 Baptist Chapel

GV II

Baptist chapel. 1864 on site of Moravian chapel. Coursed dressed blue lias with alternating narrow courses, and brick outshut; steeply pitched old tile roof. EXTERIOR: single storey; 3-window range with lean-to outshut to left return. Gabled porch to right has round-headed entrance with ovolo-moulded architrave to fanlight with radial glazing bars over 4-flush-panel door; segmental-headed window above, lighting gallery stair, has cambered arch with key block over small-paned glazing. Main elevation with 2 round-headed windows with plastered sills and small-paned fixed glazing with opening panes. Outshut to left has segmental-headed entrance with plank door. Returns have high round-headed windows. Rear has round-headed windows. INTERIOR: roof ceiled over collars of 2 hammerbeam trusses with stop-chamfered members; wainscoting; gallery has 2 timber columns and stick balusters over fielded panels; dais has turned balusters over fielded panelling and lamps on metal columns. Porch has winding stone stair with stick balusters over fielded panelling. (Leaflet on chapel in District Council records: 1983-).

Listing NGR: SP1274254896