Description

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TQ2904NE HOLLAND ROAD 579-1/19/57 (East side) 26/02/91 Baptist Chapel and attached Schoolroom including forecourt wall

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Baptist chapel, school room and forecourt wall. 1887 by John Wills and paid for by the Congreve family. Transitional Gothic style. Coursed Purbeck rubble with freestone dressings; slate roof with crested ridge tiles. Chapel and hall form a continuous range along street. From left a screen wall to passage separating chapel from house (not included) contains a Caernarvon-arched doorway set in pentised porch with quatrefoil window over with pilaster buttress completed by a heavy broached pinnacle abutting house. The chapel runs parallel to the street: a transept has two tiers of triple lancets each of two lights flanked by a single light; then four bays of double lancets in two tiers each beneath a gablet and separated by buttresses. The main entrance, a two centred arched doorway with polished Purbeck shafts occupies the ground storey of a buttressed tower, standing forward one bay, of four stages with false battlements and machicolations and with a derived Rhenish-style pyramidal roof. To the right again a further screen with doorway links to the schoolroom, gable-end to the street with triple lancet windows. Interior: the chapel is open to the roof which has hammerbeams and collars pierced with trefoils. There are galleries to three sides carried on cast-iron columns with foliated capitals. All the original pitch pine pews and desks survive, as do the fine wrought-iron screens to the galleries and other fixtures. (Elleray DR: The Victorian Churches of Sussex: 1981-: 68).

Listing NGR: TQ2959004688

External Links

• Holland Road Baptist Church at Wikipedia
• Holland Road Baptist Church official website
• Wikidata Q5881079

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