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Description: Blackley Baptist Church

Address: Blackley Baptist Church Blackley Road Elland West Yorkshire HX5 0TD

Grade: II

Group detail: Blackley Road (west side)

Full description:
Large chapel on a prominent hilltop site. 1878. Dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings. Tall 2-storey pediment-gabled front. Plinth string and sill courses, deeply moulded pediment. Archivolt arched windows, with marginal glazing, grouped to centre above paired doorways with archivolt arched fanlights framed by engaged Roman Doric columns with common entablature. Interior with continuous curve-ended raked gallery on cast iron columns with foliate caps. Stairs with richly turned balusters and newels rising to both sides of deeply panelled pulpit. Moulded beam ceiling with rose vent to each bay. Downstairs the box pews are focused to front in hemicycle. Built to seat a congregation of around 1600. The earlier 1789 chapel remains to the west as the caretaker's house.