FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO REAR OF NO 29 TOWN CLUB

FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO REAR OF NO 29, MARKET STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1036071
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:: FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO REAR OF NO 29 TOWN CLUB
Statutory Address:: FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO REAR OF NO 29, MARKET STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1036071
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:: FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO REAR OF NO 29 TOWN CLUB
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO REAR OF NO 29, MARKET STREET
Statutory Address 2:: TOWN CLUB, 29, MARKET STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO REAR OF NO 29, MARKET STREET
Statutory Address:: TOWN CLUB, 29, MARKET STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bradford-on-Avon
National Grid Reference:: ST 82599 61042

Details

1. MARKET STREET 5411 (East Side)

No 29 (Town Club) Former Methodist Chapel to rear of No 29 ST 8261 1/44

II* GV

2. Includes former Methodist Chapel to rear. C18, with mid to late C19 frontage in ashlar. 2 storeys plus attics. Moulded stringcourse over ground-floor. Moulded cornice and low parapet. Modern pantiled mansard roof with 2 hipped dormers, wood-framed casements with glazing bars. 4 windows on first floor. Sashes in chamfered reveals, no glazing bars. Ground-floor has arcade of 3 semi- circular arches on pilasters and with keystones, the right-hand arch having double doors leading to a side passage. Wooden doors of 2 panels each, with semi-circular fanlight over. The remaining arches enclose fixed-light plate-glass windows. To the left of the frontage is a square-headed doorway with moulded architrave surround and flat moulded cornice on stone brackets. Oblong fanlight and half-glazed door. Up the passageway, to the right of the house, is a long elevation facing south. This belongs to the former Methodist Chapel founded about 1756. 3 storeys reducing to 2 up the hill. Coursed rubble with three hipped pantiled roofs. Mixture of casement and sash windows. 1 venetian window, on North side to rear, with ashlar surround, keystone to central light and thick fixed glazing bars. Inside is an C18 staircase, leading to the former chapel, with plain turned balusters and ramped handrail Gallery inside the former chapel is supported by plain piers with chamfered corners. Dentil frieze on gallery front. Doric columns rise from the gallery to ceiling. Balustrades between columns. Square panels of wrought-iron scrollwork with wooden handrails. The chapel has close associations with John Wesley.

Nos 5 to 8 (consec) and Boundary wall at Priory Lodge form a group with Nos 10 to 35 (consec) and elevated pavement in front of No 21.

Listing NGR: ST8259961044

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.