Hebden Bridge Arts Centre And Antique Market (Former Baptist Chapel)

Heritage listing

Details SD 9927 5/177 HEBDEN ROYD C.P. Hebden Bridge MARKET STREET Hebden Bridge Arts Centre and Antique Market (former Baptist Chapel) 29.04.1982 GV II Arts centre and antique market, former Ebenezer chapel. Dated 1777. Dressed stone, stone slate roof. Two storeys. Five-bay symmetrical facade, ABCBA. Quoins, band, eaves cornice, raised ashlar dressings. Outer bays have sash window with plain stone surround and projecting sill. Second and fourth 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 first 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 first floor level, is square sundial the head of which is inscribed: Quod petis umbra est/1833/ Lat.53°48' Decl.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 three storey bay, early C19 with shop window to ground floor and two-light sash windows to first and second 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. Listing NGR: SD9908127240 Legacy The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System number: 404466 Legacy System: LBS

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.