Baptist Chapel

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 COXWELL STREET 578-1/4/92 (South side) 23/07/71 Baptist Chapel

GV II

Baptist Chapel. Rebuilt 1857. Limestone ashlar to front, coursed limestone rubble to right side; roof has clay tiles laid in alternating bands of plain dark red and shaped black tiles. Chapel is in simple Italianate style, gable facing. Single-storey 3-window range. Street front has triple round-headed window to centre with moulded stone surround and heavy cill on brackets over pair of 6-panel round-headed central doors in moulded stone surround; long round-headed windows in moulded stone surrounds to left and right with diamond-pattern leaded lights with coloured glass borders. Carved ribbon decoration above central window; pilaster strips on left and right corners continued as simple aedicule; moulded stone coping with corbelled-out kneelers to gable and shallow stone plinth. Right side has 5 pairs of tall round-headed windows in stone surrounds with broad chamfer; one small similar window to extreme right lighting staircase. Later additions to rear. INTERIOR has false ceiling of acoustic tiles inserted c1987 cutting off heads of side windows; simple west gallery; organ in recessed bay at east end; C20 furnishings; one C18 memorial, 1776 Joseph and Anna Freman, one C19 memorial, Daniel White former minister. Church originally formed mid C17. (Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-houses: Stell C: Gloucestershire: RCHM: 1986-: P.79).

Listing NGR: SP0215602147