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Latitude: 51.4646 / 51°27'52"N
Longitude: -2.5704 / 2°34'13"W
OS Eastings: 360474
OS Northings: 174116
OS Grid: ST604741
Mapcode National: GBR CFF.LT
Mapcode Global: VH88N.DGJ2
Plus Code: 9C3VFC7H+VV
Entry Name: Kensington Baptist Chapel
Listing Date: 30 December 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1208763
English Heritage Legacy ID: 380602
ID on this website: 101208763
Location: Upper Easton, Bristol, BS5
County: City of Bristol
Electoral Ward/Division: Lawrence Hill
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bristol
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol
Church of England Parish: Bristol St Paul's
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
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BRISTOL
ST6074 STAPLETON ROAD, Easton
901-1/37/1250 (West side)
Kensington Baptist Chapel
II
Baptist chapel. 1885. By TL Watson. Limestone ashlar, Pennant
ashlar and rubble, roof not visible. Neoclassical style.
2 storeys; 5-window range. A symmetrical front has a
pedimented centre broken forward, with rusticated quoin strips
to the central section and slightly recessed wings; Pennant
plinth, ground-floor cornice, first-floor string, entablature,
coped parapet, with the cornice raised across the centre
beneath a raised parapet. Steps up to a tripartite doorway, a
pedimented centre set forward with an eared architrave,
architraves to flanking doors, and 2-leaf 10-panel doors.
First-floor distyle-in-antis Corinthian loggia set between
paired pilasters with incised anthemia capitals, to an
entablature with a panel inscribed BAPTIST CHAPEL; 3 windows
behind the columns have pilaster jambs and moulded lintels.
Narrow windows to the wings have architraves, taller on the
first floor with small pediments. Casements with horizontal
glazing bars. Short ashlar returns, to Pennant rubble sides.
INTERIOR not inspected.
A late but competent use of Classicism for a nonconformist
chapel in Bristol, by a Glasgow architect.
Listing NGR: ST6047474116
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