Whitchurch Heritage Centre
Whitchurch Heritage Centre, 12, Saint Marys Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055955
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Whitchurch Heritage Centre
- Statutory Address:
- Whitchurch Heritage Centre, 12, Saint Marys Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055955
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Whitchurch Heritage Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- Whitchurch Heritage Centre, 12, Saint Marys 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:
- Whitchurch Heritage Centre, 12, Saint Marys Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitchurch Urban
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 54208 41611
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/04/2019
SJ 5441
8/119
WHITCHURCH URBAN CP
SAINT MARY'S STREET (south-west side),
No.12, Whitchurch Heritage Centre
(Formerly listed as No.12, Post Office previously listed as Post Office)
13.8.70
GV
II
Former Wesleyan chapel, later a post office. 1810, altered internally in the C20. Rendered, or painted grey sandstone ashlar. Hipped slate roof. Two storeys.
Plinth, rusticated ground floor, floor bands, Giant Tuscan order of pilasters with frieze, moulded cornice and blocking course, and central steep one-bay pediment. Circular cowling on roof. 1:1:1 bays, with central break. Outer first floor round-arched glazing-bar sashes with plain architraves and impost blocks, and central first floor Venetian window with plain architrave and impost blocks. Ground floor elliptical arched windows (probably altered in the C20) with margin lights, three recessed panels below, moulded imposts and voussoirs. Central pair of doors, each with three raised and fielded panels, three-part elliptical-arched fanlight and wooden doorcase with Tuscan pilasters and entablature. Return fronts of five bays to left and three bays to right, each with plinth, floor band and round-arched glazing bar sashes. Interior altered in C20.
This chapel was replaced in 1879 by Saint John's Methodist Church (q.v.) in Saint John's Street.
Listing NGR: SJ5420841611
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260675
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986), 236
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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