Strict Baptist Chapel

In the entry for:

TL 0121 NE St Mary's Street

1/134 Strict Baptist Chapel

the address shall be amended to read: St Mary's Gate Strict Baptist Chapel

The following building shall be added:

TL 0121 NE ST MARY'S STREET

1/134 Strict Baptist Chapel

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Strict Baptist Chapel. Built 1849 on site of earlier building. Flemish bond yellow brick; gabled slate roof; brick rear end stack. Classical style. Gabled 3-bay front framed by clasped pilasters and dentilled cornice; gauged red brick semi-circular arches over 30-pane sashes flanking blind window set above classi- cal doorway with pilasters and cornice. 3-bay side walls with similar sashes to front and flat brick arches over 2-light casements with glazing bars to rear and door to rear left. Interior: complete set of furnishings with carved bench ends to pews, and gallery to three sides with panelled balcony fronts and dados and reached by two straight-flight stairs with winders; box pews to front flank pulpit with turned balusters and fret-cut brackets to steps. Monuments: wall tablets to Lawrence Chesher, Minister (d.1819) and wife Mary (d.1817) and to Mary Hudrial of Totternhoe (d.1808). History: the first meeting-house in St Mary's Street was built in 1708.

Listing NGR: TL0179621687