Listed Building record TQ 82 NW 51 - BAPTIST CHAPEL AND FORMER SCHOOL

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1853 to 1899

Location

Grid reference TQ 8085 2804 (point)
Map sheet TQ82NW
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish SANDHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
SANDHURST TQ82NW RYE ROAD (OFF) 1350-0/6/229 (South side) 20/06/67 Baptist Chapel and Former School (Formerly Listed as: Baptist Church) GV II Baptist chapel and former Sunday School. Chapel of 1853, Sunday School of 1899. Chapel built of red brick with 4 bays facing north and 3 west, each flanked by white brick pilasters with segmental arched arcading above. The 2 centre arches of the north front contain Venetian windows; the outer ones are round-headed at 1st floor level. Eaves cornice of white brick cogging. Slate roof with brick chimneystack. Gable end facing west reated as a pediment and with 2 similar arches below it containing windows on ground and 1st floors. Square porch. Interior has semi-circular wooden pulpit and gallery supported on 2 Tuscan columns. Attached is a Sunday School of 1 storey red brick with slate roof, 1 gabled dormer and 1 false gabled dormer with clock face. 3 Gothick windows with keystones. 2 plank doors. Pilasters and cogged eaves cornice. Inscription reads "In memory of Thomas Ellis Slaughter, founder of this school, died Sept. 28 1899 aged 69 years".
Listing NGR: TQ8144127997


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM