Roade Baptist Church and attached schoolroom is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1988. Place of worship. 1 related planning application.
Roade Baptist Church and attached schoolroom
- WRENN ID
- proud-sandstone-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1988
- Type
- Place of worship
- Address
- Roade Baptist Church and attached schoolroom, High Street, NN7 2NW
- OS grid reference
- SP 758 517
- Coordinates
- 52.15847, -0.892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a Baptist chapel, initially built between 1736 and 1737, with alterations in the late 18th century. It was significantly heightened, re-roofed, and had its window heads renewed in 1802, and an early 19th-century schoolroom and vestry were added. The chapel is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with limestone dressings, and has a slate roof, hipped on the left side. It has a two-window front. The ground floor features four-panel doors with overlights to the left and right of a central twelve-pane sash window. Matching sashes are on the first floor, either side of a late 19th-century clock face set within a circular moulded stone surround. The doors and windows are topped with stone lintels. An attached, single-storeyed schoolroom and vestry, one window wide and slightly set back, has a similar door and sashes. The rear elevation has six hornless sash windows, some with twelve panes, others with eighteen. The left return features an oculus in the gable wall, while the right return has horned sash windows.
Inside, there is a gallery supported by slender columns and plain benches throughout, each with planked backs. A baptistry for full immersion is positioned forward of where the communion table stands.
Local climate
Roade Baptist Church and attached schoolroom sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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