Wycliffe Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Church. 1 related planning application.
Wycliffe Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- night-spindle-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SU 7273 8/504
Kings Road (north side) Wycliffe Baptist Church
II
Built in 1887 as a daughter house to the King's Road Baptist Chapel (qv). North Italian classicizing-Romanesque in style. Grey brick with red brick corner piers, moulded plinth, strings at first floor level and first floor cill dressings. Central pedimented break above a five light arcade which is over three arch loggia porch. Two light windows in outer bays, to left a pedimented aedicule facing west; to right a four stage tower, possibly intended to have steeple.
Round headed windows. Porch arcade on pink granite columns with scroll caps. Moulded eaves band. Roman tile roof. Lower two storey extension to right (added 1885, foundation stone laid by Walter Palmer). It has a porch in gabled break and is linked to the tower by curved ground floor wall. Single and paired round headed lancets. Two oculi on first floor to left. Moulded brick modillion eaves cornice and gable verges. Ground floor projection with lean-to. A further gable to centre of first floor. Large clerestory lit hall behind with wooden brackets to hipped Roman tile roof.
Listing NGR: SU7306673223
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