Downicarey Methodist Church And Schoolroom Adjoining At South East

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

BROADWOODWIDGER SX 39 SE 5/28 Downicarey Methodist Church and - schoolroom adjoining at south east GV II Methodist church and adjoining schoolroom. Stone rubble with slate roofs gabled at ends, the schoolroom adjoining at the left has a rendered chimney at the left end.

Unusually small church and schoolroom, the church with Gothic style windows. Single storey, the schoolroom with a lower roof and a separate entrance. 2-bay chapel with a small gabled porch to the left with a doorway on the right return and a blocked pointed window to the front with an eared architrave picked out in paint. To the right of the porch a 3-light pointed window with glazing bars has an eared shouldered architrave picked out in paint. 2 similar rear windows to the chapel. The schoolroom is entered on the front at the right and has one 3-light casement with 3 panes per light to the left with a shouldered painted architrave.

Interior The roof trusses of the chapel are early C19 with a tie beam and queen struts with pendants above curved braces that spring from a moulded wallplate. A simple rostrum has blind Gothic arcading and is flanked by arcaded rails.

Rectangular bench ends. A circular central ventilator in the ceiling has an outer plaster moulding.

Listing NGR: SX3705190151

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0990 IOE Records taken by Barbara Hilton; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Dr Barbara Hilton. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project