Description

TF8109
809-1/5/98

SWAFFHAM
STATION STREET (West side)
Baptist Chapel and Hall

19/10/95

II

Baptist Chapel and attached church hall. 1858. Red brick with gault-brick facade. Slate roof.
EXTERIOR: facade with 2 identical 3-storey towers with, between them, a recessed gabled centre. Towers with pilasters at corners. Each tower has a 4-panelled door under a fanlight without glazing bars. Arched first-floor window with margin glazing, brick corbel courses below lantern top stage: paired corner pilasters and open arched windows to cardinal points. Pyramid roof. Centrepiece with 3 stepped arched windows to each floor. Margin glazing. Gabled roof. Returns have 5 top-hung casements. At west end is a red-brick church hall in a 3-window range of 6/6 horned sashes.
INTERIOR: gallery to east, north and south sides supported on cast-iron twisted columns with Composite capitals. Cast-iron balcony rails and moulded timber handrail. Shallow dished plaster ceiling. Organ gallery at west end. Below is a marble total immersion font with steps right and left. Pulpit and seating intact. 2 closed-string staircases with turned balusters rise to gallery at east end.

Listing NGR: TF8194309317

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559655

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