Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Baptist Church
Knighton, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 30 September 1985
- Community
- Knighton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.34487, -3.05178
- Cadw reference
- 9018
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At corner of Norton Street and Russell Street with doorways to both sides.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Hengoed HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- 45 Market StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 2 Russell StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 46 Market StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.