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Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
9018
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/09/1985
Date of Amendment
30/09/1985
Name of Property
Baptist Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Knighton
Town
Locality
Easting
328447
Northing
272387
Street Side
Location
At corner of Norton Street and Russell Street with doorways to both sides.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Dated 1865 (opened 29 September). Decorated Gothic Church on land purchased from Green Price Family.
Exterior
Colourwashed rubble walls, dressed quoins, projecting plinth. Slate roof with cresting. Cusped bargeboards to main gable and cross gable to Norton Street. 3-window Russell Street front and cusped quatrefoil at apex above plaque. 4-light Y-traceried windows, the central one raised over boarded entrance. 5-window Norton Street front with advanced gable centre and foliated cornice either side. Hood moulds to similar windows with some stylistically later tracery to raised centre window. Brace plate across central window.
Plaque on Norton Street front reads: "Baptist Church erected 1865, renovated 1922. J E Morris - architect, J Pugh - Minister, J Richards - builder". Plaque on Russell Street front reads: "Baptist Church erected 1865".
Interior
Alterations to interior include galleries of 1922.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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