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Baptist Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Great Gidding, Cambridgeshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.4337 / 52°26'1"N

Longitude: -0.3575 / 0°21'27"W

OS Eastings: 511760

OS Northings: 283016

OS Grid: TL117830

Mapcode National: GBR GZZ.DF7

Mapcode Global: VHFNY.R3C4

Plus Code: 9C4XCJMR+FX

Entry Name: Baptist Church

Listing Date: 9 April 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1222773

English Heritage Legacy ID: 54772

ID on this website: 101222773

Location: Great Gidding Baptist Church, Great Gidding, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, PE28

County: Cambridgeshire

District: Huntingdonshire

Civil Parish: Great Gidding

Built-Up Area: Great Gidding

Traditional County: Huntingdonshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire

Church of England Parish: Great Gidding St Michael

Church of England Diocese: Ely

Tagged with: Protestant church building

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

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