Holland Road Baptist Church
| Holland Road Baptist Church | |
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The church from the southwest
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| 50°49′38″N 0°09′41″W / 50.8271°N 0.1614°WCoordinates: 50°49′38″N 0°09′41″W / 50.8271°N 0.1614°W | |
| Location | 71 Holland Road, Hove, Brighton and Hove BN3 1JN |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Denomination | Baptist |
| Website | www.hrbc.org.uk/ |
| History | |
| Founded | 1882 |
| Founder(s) | George Congreve |
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| Status | Church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade II listed |
| Designated | 26 February 1991 |
| Architect(s) | John Wills |
| Style | Transitional Gothic Revival |
| Groundbreaking | 1887 |
| Completed | 29 July 1887 |
| Specifications | |
| Capacity | 790 |
| Materials | Purbeck Stone |
| Administration | |
| District | South Eastern Baptist Association |
| Clergy | |
| Pastor(s) | David Treneer |
| Chaplain(s) | Phillip Deuk |
Holland Road Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Hove, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Built in 1887 to replace a temporary building on the same site, which had in turn superseded the congregation's previous meeting place in a nearby gymnasium, it expanded to take in nearby buildings and is a landmark on Holland Road, a main north–south route in Hove. It is one of ten extant Baptist church buildings in the city, and is the only one to have been listed by English Heritage in view of its architectural importance.
The Wick estate was a large area of land north of the ancient village of Hove. Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, part of the Goldsmid banking dynasty, bought most of the land for development in 1830. The estate was 250 acres (100 ha) in size and consisted of farmland, pastures and woodland, all centred on Wick Farm. Its boundaries were the parish of Brighton, the road along the seafront, the Stanford estate (a similar landholding, owned by Sir William Stanford) and Dyke Road at the boundary of the parish of Preston. The Wick estate was first described in print in 1247, and it passed through many owners in the next six centuries; Anthony Stapley, one of the regicides of King Charles I, held it for nearly 50 years. In 1830, Thomas Scutt and Thomas Read Kemp owned the land, and a portion on the south side was used to build the Brunswick estate. They sold the remaining 216.2 acres (87.5 ha) to Goldsmid for £55,525 (£4,483,500 as of 2017).
Holland Road was named after Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (Lord Holland), a Whig statesman and friend of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid. It was one of the first roads planned in the area—the name was decided by 1833—but development was slow. Only two buildings were in place by 1854. By the 1860s it had reached its full length, running from the seafront to the original (now closed) Hove station on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway's line to Portsmouth.
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