NHER 9375 (Building) - Former Stepney Chapel now King's Lynn Auction Rooms, Blackfriars Street

1972. Listed Grade II.
Built as Baptist Church, 1841. Built for Rev. J.T. Wigner, who had attended Stepney College. Gault brick with rendered and whitewashed dressings, slate roof, two storeys. Plain brick pilasters to each side of facade lead into a pediment. Group of three windows to each floor brought forward. Ground-floor ones have shouldered heads and glazing bars, upper ones have oculi in heads and rounded arches. One 20th century door right and left in heavy surrounds. Above each is a two-light window with a roundel in the heads. In pediment is a truncated cornice with datestone: 1841. Gabled roof. East and west returns have two-light transomed casements, the lower lights with arched heads, above the transoms with roundels. Interior not inspected, but balcony understood to be intact.
Information from (S1).
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 7 December 2018.

April 1976. Site visit.
Built 1841, Baptist Chapel. Restrained classical. White-brick facade with stone door surrounds etc and inscription panels; red brick rear.
E. Rose (NAU), 7 April 1976.

Stone coffin and skeletons were found when this chapel was built, apparently part of Blackfriars, see NHER 1176.
E. Rose (NAU).

(S2) in file.

Used as Auction Rooms 1993.

Former Baptist Chapel designed by James Fenton. This building has a pedimented front of gault brick with two entrances and groups of three narrow windows between. This building is now used by the New Life Christian Fellowship.
Information from (S3).
M. Langham-Lopez (HES), 22 October 2012.

During the early 19th century the land on which this building stands was owned by the Bagge family and until the 1840s it was let for agricultural purposes. This chapel was the first building to be constructed in this area in 1841.
Information from (S4).
See also (S5).
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 7 December 2018.