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Roade Baptist Church and attached schoolroom

A Grade II Listed Building in Roade, West Northamptonshire

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Latitude: 52.1585 / 52°9'30"N

Longitude: -0.892 / 0°53'31"W

OS Eastings: 475893

OS Northings: 251710

OS Grid: SP758517

Mapcode National: GBR BX7.P94

Mapcode Global: VHDSK.H09N

Plus Code: 9C4X5455+96

Entry Name: Roade Baptist Church and attached schoolroom

Listing Date: 24 February 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1040937

English Heritage Legacy ID: 234952

ID on this website: 101040937

Location: Roade, West Northamptonshire, NN7

County: West Northamptonshire

Civil Parish: Roade

Built-Up Area: Roade

Traditional County: Northamptonshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northamptonshire

Church of England Parish: Roade St Mary the Virgin

Church of England Diocese: Peterborough

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SP 7550
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ROADE
HIGH STREET (South side)
Roade Baptist Church and attached school room

24/2/88

II

Non-conformist (Baptist) chapel. Partly of 1736-7; altered in the late C18; heightened, re-roofed and the window heads renewed in 1802; early C19 schoolroom and vestry. Coursed limestone rubble with limestone dressings, slate roof, hipped to left, with lower two-storeyed schoolroom and vestry to right. Chapel, two storeys, two-window range. Four-panel doors with overlights to left and right of central ground floor twelve-pane sash window. Similar sashes to first floor either side of central (late C19) clock face in circular moulded stone surround. Doors and windows have stone lintels. Attached storeyed one-window range slightly set back with similar door and sashes. Rear with six twelve-and eighteen-pane hornless sash windows. Left return with oculus to gable wall. Right return with horned sash windows.

Interior: Gallery on slender columns; plain benches throughout (with planked backs). Baptistry for full immersion stands forward of site of communion table.

References: RCHM(E), An Inventory of Non-conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England (1986), p.146; E A Payne, Roade Baptist Church 1688-1938 (1938).

Listing NGR: SP7589351710

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