Thorpe Baptist Church

THORPE-LE-SOKEN HIGH STREET TM 1622-1722 (north-east side) 8/85 Thorpe Baptist Church

GV II

Baptist church. 1803. Timber framed, weatherboarded and roughcast, roofed with old grey slates. Rectangular plan facing SW, with single-storey block to rear. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 C19/early C20 sashes of 16 lights. First floor, 2 original sashes of 4 + 8 lights, with crown glass. C20 double doors, with original gabled canopy on scrolled brackets, boarded later on left side only. Front elevation roughcast, remainder weatherboarded. Hipped roof of shallow pitch with lead hip-ridges and long overhanging eaves with paired brackets. The left return has on the ground floor 2 original sashes of 16 lights, and 2 of 12 lights, and on the first floor 2 original sashes of 4 + 8 lights. The right return has on the ground floor 2 original sashes of 16 lights and on the first floor 2 original sashes of 4 + 8 lights. Most of the original sashes contain crown glass. The rear block has a hipped slate roof. The rear elevation of the main hall has on the upper storey 2 sashes of 12 lights with semi-circular heads. The interior is of one storey with at the SW end a gallery with panelled front supported on cast iron stanchions, added in 1820 (E.A. Wood, A History of Thorpe-le-Soken to the year 1890, 1975, 64, 105).

Listing NGR: TM1798722385