Baptist Church of West Croydon is a Grade II listed building in the Croydon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1974. Church.
Baptist Church of West Croydon
- WRENN ID
- silver-remnant-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon West MP: Sarah Jones (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1974
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Baptist Church of West Croydon, Whitehorse Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 323 665
- Coordinates
- 51.38301, -0.09886
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baptist Church of West Croydon, built in 1873 by J Theodore Barker, is a two-storey structure made of red brick with stone dressings. The ground floor features three bays, which are divided by paired Doric pilasters that support a triglyph frieze and a panelled parapet above a plinth. The walls are rusticated, and there are sash windows along with a central door. The upper part of the church has three round-headed windows set in moulded surrounds with pediments, a cill band, quoins, a frieze, and a stone pediment. On either side, there are Doric columned quadrants with balustrades that curve around to the recessed wings, which have domed quarter-round roofs. The main walls of the wings are plain but feature friezes, cornices, and capped parapets. The sides of the chapel are divided into round-headed bays, with round-headed windows on the first floor and straight-headed ones below, along with a frieze, cornice, parapet, and stone capping. Inside, the church has galleries on three sides with cast iron bombe fronts, a rostrum pulpit, staircases with iron railings, and an organ located at the rear.
Local climate
Baptist Church of West Croydon sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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