Listed Building: BAPTIST CHAPEL (1329677)

SJ 87 NW GREAT WARFORD CP MERRYMAN'S LANE 7/24 Baptist Chapel 14.4.67 (formerly listed as Baptist Chapel and Chapel Cottage) II* Chapel and cottage. Mid C17 with alterations of 1712 and 1813. Timber frame with brick infill and red English garden wall bond brick with stone slate roof. 2-storey cottage to west with aisleless galleried chapel to east. Road frontage: Early C18 brickwork. 6 bays, cottage and church contiguous. Cottage to left of 3 bays. Door at far left with splayed head. Early C18 plank doorway with contemporary ironwork including knocker plate inscribed "No.the 4 1712". 2 bays to right have splayed-head 2-light casements to ground floor with blind window to left of first floor containing datestone inscribed WBC 1813. 2-light casement to right of this with wooden lintel. To the right are 2 triangular-headed lancet windows with stone cills of the 1813 remodelling and containing C20 diamond leaded panes. Splayed head doorway to right exactly similar to that of left hand cottage. Plaque between lancets inscribed "Great Warford Baptist Chapel Founded at Norbury Houses 1642". Clasping buttress at right corner of C20 brickwork. Eastern gable end: C17 English garden wall bond brick. Blocked doorway to ground floor originally giving access to lean-to (now demolished). 2-light casement window to first floor, originally taller. Rear elevation: 9 x 3 cells of small framing. 3 2-light casement windows to ground floor and 2 2-light casements to first floor, one of 12 panes of old glass. C20 outshut projecting to right at ground floor level. C20 clasping buttress at left corner. West front: C20 brickwork with 1 triangular-headed lancet as at front but taller. Interior; The chapel is said to have been converted from a barn probably in 1712 when it had a gallery at either end and the pulpit against the North wall. In 1813 part was divided off as a cottage for the minister. As presently arranged, the chapel is divided from the cottage by a wall against the centre of which the pulpit is now placed. 5 C19 box pews to North and 4 to South. Truss supported on 2 chamfered posts, the northern having an ogee stop. Arch braces from wall posts supporting cambered tie. Queen posts. Listing NGR: SJ8163077018