Former Chapel (Kensington Chapel)
FORMER CHAPEL, KENSINGTON PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394031
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Former Chapel (Kensington Chapel)
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CHAPEL, KENSINGTON PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394031
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Former Chapel (Kensington Chapel)
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER CHAPEL, KENSINGTON PLACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- KENSINGTON CHAPEL, KENSINGTON PLACE
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:
- FORMER CHAPEL, KENSINGTON PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- KENSINGTON CHAPEL, KENSINGTON PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7572565991
Details
KENSINGTON PLACE
(South side)
Former Chapel
(Formerly Listed as :LONDON ROAD
(South side) Nos 1-3 (consec). Nos 4-10 (consec)
Former Chapel, Kensington Place)
12/06/50
GV
II
Kensington Chapel, now warehouse. 1795 converted late C20. By John Palmer.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate mansard roof with moulded stacks to coped gable ends.
PLAN: Rectangular plan.
STYLE: Classical style.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys and basement, symmetrical three-window range. Chamfered rustication to ground floor with keystones over fixed twelve-pane windows dying into platband. Semicircular arches and continuous moulded sill to large sixteen-pane first floor windows with radial glazing bars which are framed by paired Composite pilasters with consoles below sill and which support entablature at impost level. Parapet spanned by flattened pediment, cornice and frieze on painted `KENSINGTON CHAPEL'. Entrances are double doors toward front of returns set under flat segmental arches of adjacent houses, Nos 5 to right and No.6 to left (qv).
INTERIOR: Much altered. It formerly had gallery with three fireplaces, altered, and has had two floors inserted; however, some of cast iron columns survive and the decorative panelled reredos is largely intact.
HISTORY: Chapel, designed by John Palmer and built by John Jelly was built by public subscription and opened for service during January. 1795. When the chapel was transferred to Anglican use in the 1860s a dissenting group broke away to establish their own chapel at Hay Hill.
SOURCES: (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: Bath: 1948-: 62; Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840: London: 1978-: 614; C. Stell, `Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses of South-West England' (RCHME 1991), 161-62).
Listing NGR: ST7572565991
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 509423
- 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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