Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1998. Chapel.

Baptist Church

WRENN ID
third-wicket-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1998
Type
Chapel
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Baptist Church in Warminster is a Baptist chapel dated 1810, with remodels made around 1850. It is constructed of Flemish bond red brick with stone dressings and features a clay plain tile hipped roof, topped with a small metal ventilator on the ridge. The building has a rectangular plan, with the liturgical east end located at the west end. Originally, it had galleries on three sides, with the entrance situated on the east front beneath the remaining gallery. An organ chamber and church rooms were added in a lean-to at the west end around 1850.

The exterior showcases a three-bay east front, which includes two large round arch windows framed in plain stone with small keystones and mid-19th century plate tracery. A lunette is positioned high at the center, also treated similarly, with a stone tablet below inscribed "EBENEZER CHAPEL 1810." The central doorway is framed in plain stone with a keystone and features flush-panel double doors. The north and south sides each have three bays, with first-floor round-arch windows that have small keystones and mid-19th century stone plate tracery, while the ground floor windows have flat arches with mid-19th century stone frames. At the west end, the main roof extends over a projecting center bay, which houses the organ chamber, and has a slate lean-to roof below.

Inside, the church was remodeled around 1850, featuring an arcaded west wall with the organ chamber in the wider center bay, which includes a balcony with an ornate cast-iron balustrade and a Baroque organ by Nelson from the same period. The gallery at the east end is supported by thin iron posts and has a similar cast-iron balustrade. The interior also features a dentilled ceiling cornice, a central rose with acanthus leaves and reeding, and ventilator grilles. The rostrum and seating have been replaced, except for the original benches in the gallery. There are a pair of original gallery stairs with stick balusters and column newels. A memorial on the west wall commemorates Sarah Roberts, who died in 1825, along with her two daughters, Sarah and Eliza, who died in 1824.

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