Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987.
Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- sharp-barrel-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1987
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
FRESSINGFIELD LOW ROAD TM 27 NE 10/45 - Baptist Chapel -- II
Baptist chapel. 1835, by George Spratt who became the first pastor. Red brick, with a pilaster strip to each wall. Hipped slated roof. 2 storeys. A very unusual plan in the form of an elongated hexagon. Inset sash windows with glazing bars under flat brick arches. At narrow end to north a small C19 brick porch with mid C20 glazed doors; inside the porch a pair of C19 panelled. doors. C19 single-storey vestry to south. Interior has a continuous hexagonal gallery with plain front and pulpit opposite the entrance. Lower seating probably renewed late C19; gallery seating original, with box pews at north end and open-backed benches at the sides. Interior altered early 1980's to form 3 Sunday School rooms. A smaller chapel of similar plan was built by George Spratt at Friston in 1833. The shape which resembles a coffin, is said to be an object lesson to the mortality of life.
Listing NGR: TM2631177436
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