Primative Methodist Church
PRIMATIVE METHODIST CHURCH, RAILWAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025441
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Primative Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- PRIMATIVE METHODIST CHURCH, RAILWAY STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-09-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/01236/14
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025441
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Primative Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIMATIVE METHODIST CHURCH, RAILWAY STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PRIMATIVE METHODIST CHURCH, RAILWAY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Hetton
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 35398 47579
Details
NZ34NE HETTON RAILWAY STREET Hetton-le-Hole 8/16 Primitive Methodist Church
G.V. II
Chapel, 1858 dated on plaque in central gable. Coursed squared sandstone front with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings, other walls limestone rubble. Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys and basement, 3 bays. Tripartite central windows, those on first floor stepped, round-arched with keystones, the whole under wide round relieving arch. Facing rendered flights of steps, with iron handrails, to double doors with fanlights and keystones in outer bays. These are set in raised ashlar panels whose cornices form projecting cills to keyed, round-arched windows above. Sash windows mostly with margin lights; some alteration to glazing in central windows. Blank stuccoed panels above side windows. PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL on central first floor band. Sloping coped side parapets, defined by raised arched end blocks. Dropped, shaped central gable with pediment-like top feature. Round-arched upper windows on returns. Historical note: said to incorporate stone sleeper blocks from George Stephenson's Hetton Colliery railway, and to have been built by the miners of Hetton Colliery.
Listing NGR: NZ3539847579
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303172
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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