Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1975. Church.
Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- rusted-mullion-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Baptist Church, Silver Street, Taunton
- OS grid reference
- ST 231 244
- Coordinates
- 51.01413, -3.09662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baptist Church, built in 1814 with a facade added in 1870 by J H Smith, is designed in the Italian Trecento style. It is a two-storey structure made of stucco. The gable parapet features an enriched cornice topped with a wrought-iron finial and is supported by corbelled brackets. The facade includes three round-headed blind arches, each containing paterae with traceried oculi, arranged in an echelon pattern. There are short three-quarter columns with crocket capitals, and a deep string course runs above the first floor. The corners of the building have pilasters with brackets and nook shafts that extend to the first floor, while the ground floor is rusticated.
The church has five windows, with the central section projecting slightly and featuring nook shafts, round heads, keystones, paterae, crocket capitals, and panelled imposts. The windows are adorned with Italianate tracery and diamond leaded lights, and there is a deep string course above the ground floor. In the center, there are three doorways, each with similar detailing, leading to double three-panel doors.
The Baptist Church, along with the gatepiers and walls to the forecourt, and Nos 2a to 29 (odd) Silver Street, form a cohesive group.
Local climate
Baptist Church receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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