Baptist Chapel The Lawrence Flat The Manse Adjoining

HATCH BEAUCHAMP CP ST3020 HATCH BEAUCHAMP VILLAGE

12/11 Baptist Chapel, The Lawrence Flat and The Manse adjoining (formerly listed as 2 separate items: Baptist Chapel and The Manse) 25.2.55

GV II

Baptist chapel; lecture room and classrooms, now flat; manse, vacant at time of survey (December 1984). Chapel dated 1783, lecture rooms dated 1883, manse 1855. Chapel and lecture rooms: roughcast grooved as ashlar, quoins, lias plinth, gable fronted, slate roofs, overhanging eaves, decorative bargeboards to taller lecture rooms. Plan: parallel range, 2-storey lecture room and classrooms left, chapel full height probably with west end gallery. 1:1 bays; Ham date stones in gable ends, 3-light arched windows resting on lintels of 6-panel double doors with rusticated surrounds and pentice porches on stepped brackets, left hand entrance to lecture rooms flanked by illegible Ham stone tablets set above the plinth, larger tablet left stating that this addition was made "at the sole expense of Mr Vincent Owsley as an expression of gratitude to Almighty God for blessings received" and opened 1883. Left return, 4 bays, 12-pane sash windows first floor, two 16-pane sash windows ground floor and inserted C20 door right. Right return; 2 arched many paned windows. The Manse adjoining, set back. Rendered, shallow pitch slate roof, brick stacks gable ends; probably double pile; 2 storeys, 3 bays, 2-light casements first floor, ground floor cruciform windows central segmental headed recessed doorway, flanked by stepped buttresses, half-glazed door with marginal glazing bars and coloured glass. (Photograph in NMR).

Listing NGR: ST3058021148