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Description: Hebden Bridge Arts Centre Antique Market (former Baptist Chapel)

Address: Arts Centre 4 Market Street Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire HX7 6AA

Grade: II

Group detail: Market Street, Hebden Bridge

Full description:
Arts centre and antique market, former Ebeneezer chapel. Dated 1777. Dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 5-bay symmetrical facade, ABCBA. Quoins, band, eaves cornice, raised ashlar dressings. Outer bays have sash window with plain stone surround and projecting sill. 2nd and 4th bays have doorways with lugged architrave, pulvinated frieze and triangular pediment with modillioned surround. The tympanum of the right hand door bears date. Over, to 1st floor are sashed windows. Central bay is formed by paired windows with semi-circular arched heads with moulded impost and triple keystone. Set between, at 1st floor level, is square sundial the head of which is inscribed: "Quod petis umbra est, 1833, Lat 53 48' Ded. 3 40". To either side a list of the days of the month when the dial is slow. Attached to the left hand end is an added 3 storey bay, early C19 with shop window to ground floor and 2-light sash windows to 1st and 2nd floor. Gable stack. Interior of chapel preserves cast iron Tuscan columns which support the gallery the well of which has been floored over. Illustrated in C. Spencer, Hebden Bridge History Trail, (Hebden Bridge, no date) p.23.