Stepney Chapel
STEPNEY CHAPEL, BLACKFRIARS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298167
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Stepney Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- STEPNEY CHAPEL, BLACKFRIARS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298167
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Jul-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Stepney Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- STEPNEY CHAPEL, BLACKFRIARS STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- STEPNEY CHAPEL, BLACKFRIARS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 62087 20005
Details
KING'S LYNN
TF6220SW BLACKFRIARS STREET 610-1/8/16 (North side) 07/06/72 Stepney Chapel (Formerly Listed as: BLACKFRIARS STREET Stepney Baptist Church)
II
Built as Baptist Church, now auction rooms. 1841. Built for Rev. JT Wigner, who had attended Stepney College. Gault brick with rendered and whitewashed dressings. Slate roof. 2 storeys. Plain brick pilasters to each side of facade lead into a pediment. Group of 3 windows to each floor brought forward. Ground-floor ones have shouldered heads and glazing bars, upper ones have oculi in heads and rounded arches. One C20 door right and left in heavy surrounds. Above each is a 2-light window with a roundel in the heads. In pediment is a truncated cornice with datestone: 1841. Gabled roof. East and west returns have 2-light transomed casements, the lower lights with arched heads, above the transoms with roundels. INTERIOR not inspected, but balcony understood to be intact.
Listing NGR: TF6208720005
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384072
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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