Description

SE13SW QUEENSBURY CHAPEL STREET
Queensbury

Baptist Church
5/20 (formerly listed as Queensbury
30th April 1982 Baptist Church and Minister's House

GV II

Baptist Chapel. Founded 1773 re-built 1820. Hammer-dressed stone
with ashlar dressings. Slate roof. Two storeys. 5-bay symmetrical
front. Central Venetian window with tripartite window over to 1st
floor. Plain doorways to each side. Plain 4-pane sash windows with
raised sill. Band between floors. Central tablet with roundel reads:

This chapel was built
AD 1773
Rebuilt
AD 1820

Dentilled eaves cornice. Hipped roof. Three-bay side elevation.

Interior: Raking gallery to sides and rear, with panelled fronts,
on slender cast-iron columns. Organ loft with stair to each side
and central pulpit. Turned balusters and handrail. All in dark
varnished wood. Panelled box pews throughout, arranged to look
towards the centre. Gallery stairs enclosed at rear, to each side.
Memorial to John Taylor, Pastor of the church, (d. 1818).
F. Barrett, A History of Queensbury, 1963.

Listing NGR: SE1015730328

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26600621

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Recommended Books

• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)