| Catalogue Finding Number | WYHER/12295 |
| Office record is held at | Historical Environment Record, West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service |
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| Title | Clayton West Baptist Chapel and Sunday School, High Street |
| Description | Baptist Chapel and Sunday School. Dated 1840 and 1860. Tooled stone facade, hammer dressed stone sides. Hipped slate roof (part bitumen covered. Paired stone brackets to gutter. Three round arched windows of 8 panes, with key and impost blocks. Two symmetrically placed, double, 4 panelled doors with square head. The 2 windows and door to the left serve the chapel. Above doors are 2 tablets inscribed: 'BAPTIST CHAPEL AD MDCCLXL' and 'BAPTIST SCHOOL AD MDCCCLX'
Similar rear elevation with later single storey extension. C20 brick extension to right side. Interior to chapel said to be plain but original with pews focused on pulpit.
(Text edited from English Heritage's National Heritage List of England,1982)
Mid 19th century Baptist chapel and later Sunday school. Visited by Elizabeth Chamberlin and Rebecca Mann (WYAAS) in July 2010 in relation to a planning listed building application (2010/62/91345 and 2010/65/91346).
The chapel (grade II listed ) was built in 1840 and extended in 1860 to form a Baptist school. The building is of stone construction with a hipped roof of natural slate, and the east facade contains separate entrances to the chapel and school, each of which have a datestone above them. There are three high round arched windows to this elevation. The interior of the chapel still retains the cross wall (which was formerly the gable wall of the chapel) between the Sunday school and chapel. The chapel retains the pulpit and raised seating area for the ministers/elders and set within this raised area is a trap door which opens to reveal wooden steps down into a large galvanised steel baptismal tank. A doorway in the west facade leads into a small stone built extension (more recently used as toilets) which still contains a chimney breast. The ceiling of the chapel contained a large central roundel or ceiling rose which formed part of the 19th century decorative scheme of the relatively plain building.
A number of headstones are also located within the burial ground which surrounds the chapel. A number of these graves date from before 1900 and are therefore consider to be of archaeological interest. The exact number of burials is unknown, and many of the headstones appear to have been removed (Chamberlin and Mann, 2010). |
| Date | 21st century |
| Extent | contact the West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service for information on what is available |
| Level | Item |