Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1988. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.

Baptist Chapel

WRENN ID
grey-chancel-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Forest of Dean
Country
England
Date first listed
7 March 1988
Type
Chapel
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SO 60 SW 7/107

LYDNEY HIGH STREET (west side) Baptist Chapel

II

Chapel. Mid C19. Smooth rendered, asbestos-cement slate roof to pedimented front and hipped back. A simple plan, with school room or rooms attached at back, 3-bay front with heavy cornice on floral brackets returned at ends and central pediment with florid cartouche, windows tall, narrow arched 2-light casements with Y-tracery and horizontal glazing bars in plat-band surrounds to impost blocks, keystone with moulded impost. Central projecting porch with steep pediment with 'Baptist Chapel' in 'rococco' scrolled surround, central pair plank doors in surround as for windows, up 3 steps. Sides 3-windowed, sashes with 6+9 panes under interlaced Y-tracery and in simplified surrounds as at front, all to stooled cills. Interior has plain ceiling with rosette, panelled gallery front, pitch-pine pews. Simple, but notable in its context.

Listing NGR: SO6307603009

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