Baptist Church Downton, England

Listed Building Data

Baptist Church has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1300437
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
4 July 1985
Name
BAPTIST CHURCH
Location
BAPTIST CHURCH, SOUTH LANE
Parish
Downton
District
Wiltshire
Grid Reference
SU 17495 21399
Easting
417495.0000
Northing
121399.0000

Listed Building Description

Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

DOWNTON SOUTH LANE SU 1721 (east side) 5/119 Baptist Church

GV II

Baptist Church. 1857. English bond brick with diapers in vitrified headers, Welsh slate roof, limestone ashlar bellcote. Nave and chancel with north west porch. West end lean-to porch to left with double panelled doors and fanlight. West front has large round-arched 2-light windows with margin panes and rose window, either side are round-arched margin-pane windows, vertical division of facade by pilasters with raking plinths. Deep eaves on wooden brackets, gabled bellcote to west gable. Left return has porch and round window over, to left are two pairs of tall margin-pane windows, same pilasters as front. Right return has three pairs of tall margin-pane windows. Rear is east end with gabled roof with round windows, lower roof levels for church rooms with C20 windows. Interior not accessible but arrangement of rooms has been altered. Unusual bold design, replacing a late C18 church on same site.

Listing NGR: SU1749521399