Baptist Church Church Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1994. Church, church hall.
Baptist Church Church Hall
- WRENN ID
- peeling-window-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1994
- Type
- Church, church hall
- Address
- Baptist Church Church Hall, Springfield Road, Ilfracombe
- OS grid reference
- SS 517 475
- Coordinates
- 51.20805, -4.1232
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baptist Church and Church Hall, originally the schoolroom, were built in 1891 by W.H. Gould of Ilfracombe. The church features a front made of pinkish, squared Combe Martin stone with Bath stone dressings and some polished red granite details. The Church Hall is constructed from rough local stone rubble with limestone dressings at the front, much of which is painted, and red brick at the back. Both buildings have asbestos slated roofs.
The church has a deep, narrow-fronted plan and appears to have side aisles, with the Church Hall attached to the left-hand side at the rear. The exterior showcases a gabled two-stage front in a simple Perpendicular style, highlighted by an octagonal limestone pinnacle on the left. The lower stage features a doorway accessed by a flight of bowed steps, with a pointed arch supported by polished granite columns, and the spandrels are carved with foliage. Flanking the doorway are two pointed arch windows with two lights each, and above is a taller five-light window. A memorial stone is dated 26 March 1891. The side walls have long ranges of wooden clerestorey windows, with pointed arches on the right side.
The Church Hall has six windows across the front and a Norman-style doorway, which was re-used from the former chapel, located at the right end. Above this doorway is a round-arched window set beneath a gable. To the left of the doorway are five tall round-arched windows, with five flat-headed windows above. This building also features a memorial stone dated 26 March 1891.
While the interiors were not inspected, historical references from 1891 mention a marble baptistery in front of the preaching rostrum and an organ by Messrs Vowles of Bristol. In 1937, Allen T. Hussell noted the open hammerbeam roof.
Local climate
Baptist Church Church Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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