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Title: Hebden Bridge Arts Centre and Antique Market, Market Street Hebden Bridge (former Baptist Chapel) - CBC00844
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Title
Hebden Bridge Arts Centre and Antique Market, Market Street Hebden Bridge (former Baptist Chapel) - CBC00844
Description
Grade II
Arts centre and antique market, former Ebenezer 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 53ø 48' Ded. 3ø 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.
NGR SD 99081 27240
Historic England List Entry Number 1229667
CMBC Ref HR 5/177
Arts centre and antique market, former Ebenezer 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 53ø 48' Ded. 3ø 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.
NGR SD 99081 27240
Historic England List Entry Number 1229667
CMBC Ref HR 5/177
Date
1982
Rights
PHDA - Calderdale MBC
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
CBC00844.jpg
Collection
Citation
“Hebden Bridge Arts Centre and Antique Market, Market Street Hebden Bridge (former Baptist Chapel) - CBC00844,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 18, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/36153.
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