Description

The following building shall be downgraded to Grade II:-

TL 1083 GREAT GIDDING MAIN STREET
(south east side)

13/53 Baptist Church

II*

and the list entry shall be amended to read:

TL 1083 GREAT GIDDING MAIN STREET
(south east side)

13/53 Baptist Church

II

Chapel. Dated 1790 on stone plaque with C19 addition to rear. Coursed
limestone rubble with hipped slated roof; C19 red brick and pantiled
roof. One galleried storey. Symmetrical entrance facade of three
'bays'. Openings with flat dressed stone arches and plain key blocks.
Two plain C20 doors with rectangular fanlights, deeply recessed with
central sixteen-paned hung sash window, three similar slightly
recessed first floor windows. Two plain stone plaques between first
floor windows with inscriptions painted black 'The building Erected
by Subscription' and 'For a Place of Worship 1790'. (Dated
inscriptions on side walls.) Interior: Gallery on three sides
supported on slender columns, gallery seating simple pine benches; two
gallery staircases. In 1992 the box-pews, rostrum and brick floor were
removed and the C19 emersion bath was altered. The original chapel was
founded at Winwick in 1780.
Minute books and registers from 1811. HRO

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TL 1083 GT GIDDING MAIN STREET
(South East side)

13/53 Baptist Church

II*

Chapel. Dated 1790 on stone plaque with C19 addition to rear. Coursed
limestone rubble with hipped slated roof; C19 red brick and pantiled roof.
One galleried storey. Symmetrical entrance facade of three 'bays'. Openings
with flat dressed stone arches and plain key blocks. Two plain C20 doors with
rectangular fanlights, deeply recessed with central sixteen-paned hung sash
window, three similar slightly recessed first floor windows. Two plain stone
plaques between first floor windows with inscriptions painted black 'The
building Erected by Subscription' and 'For a Place of Worship 1790'. (Dated
inscriptions on side walls). Interior: Gallery on three sides supported on
slender columns, gallery seating simple pine benches; two gallery staircases.
Boxed pews with fielded panels complete. Pulpit with reeded panels enlarged
from original. Original brick floors. Emersion bath C19. The original
chapel was founded at Winwick in 1780.

Minute books and registers from 1811. HRO

Listing NGR: TL1176083016

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26517077

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)