Listed Building record MDO27394 - Baptist Chapel, Hill Street, Poole

Chapel, built about 1815 and altered circa 1879. It is constructed from brick with terracotta dressings and a slate roof. To the front there is a entrance gable with a late 19th century moulded pediment containing an oculus dated 1815 over triple round-arched windows. There is a gabled late 19th century entrance porch with a mid 20th century doorway. This chapel replaces a previous one of 1735 in West Butts Street, which is marked by a plaque. A late 19th century porch has a similar moulded pediment supported by pilasters, to a mid 20th century doorway with architrave to a 2-leaf 8-panel door. Original 3-door entrance blocked, the central doorway obscured by the porch. In 1804 a Particular Baptist church was formed to succeed that at West Butts Street, opening a meeting house in Bowling Green Alley, and in 1815 built the present chapel in Hill Street.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 199 (Monograph). SDO149.

'(7) Baptist Chapel, on N.W. side of Hill Street (¼ m. N.E.), with brick walls and a slate-covered roof, was built c. 1815 replacing an earlier chapel in West Butts Street, the site of which is marked by a modern stone tablet with the date 1735. The building is rectangular (50 ft. by 36 ft.). The entrance front at the E. end has a pedimented centrepiece with a central round-headed doorway covered by a later porch and traces of blocked doorways to N. and S.; the front has been embellished with modern yellow terracotta dressings. The interior was refitted, and the E. gallery rebuilt, in the late 19th century; an organ recess and vestries were built at the W. end c. 1879.

Fittings—Monuments: in chapel yard, late 18th and early 19th-century headstones removed from former burial ground in West Butts Street. Organ: case with pilasters and classical detail, by T. J. Duncan, London, 1839, inscribed 'Erected by Contribution A.D. 1879' said to have come from St. Paul's Church, Poole, presumably when the latter was enlarged. Panelling: at E. end in vestibule, early 19th-century, reset.'

<2> Stell, C, 1991, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in South-West England, 123 (Monograph). SDO11597.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1486558 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 29 2024 3:34PM