The Methodist Church
THE METHODIST CHURCH, VICARAGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056491
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1981
- List Entry Name:
- The Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- THE METHODIST CHURCH, VICARAGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056491
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1981
- List Entry Name:
- The Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE METHODIST CHURCH, VICARAGE STREET
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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:
- THE METHODIST CHURCH, VICARAGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yeovil
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 55931 16000
Details
ST5516SE
5/117
8/117
YEOVIL CP
VICARAGE STREET (North side)
The Methodist Church
11.3.81
- II
Church (Methodist). Dated 1869 on foundation stone: designed by A. Lender of
Barnstable. Ham stone ashlar with Welsh slated roof having ornamental clay
ridges. Non-Conformist version of C13 Gothic. The main (South) facade in the
form of a wide gable with 2-gabled porches, each having pointed cusped arches to
the recessed doorways, with short freestanding jamb shafts: between these
porches a 5-lancet arcade, of which 3 panels are glazed, and above a 5-light
lancet window under a common pointed hood, flanked by 2 buttresses, the
right-hand having a turretted top (formerly with spirelet): the gable has a
triple-lancet recess under the coping, and is crowned by a stone cross finial.
The West facade has 6-bays: bay 1 has a plain pointed segmental arched doorway
up three steps; bays 2 to 5, separated by offset buttresses, are all gabled,
with pairs of cusped lancets at two levels, the smaller to the ground floor
level; bay 6 has a semi-circular projecting wing on octagonal base (of one
storey), with 5 small unhooded lancet windows below a string course and parapet,
which masks a conical slated roof. The interior has the usual two-level
arrangement, the chapel proper being on the first floor, its roof being
supported by ornamental cast iron columns. The gallery is reached by spiral
stairs. The Church was severely damaged by enemy action during World War II and
subsequently restored.
Listing NGR: ST5593116000
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261456
- 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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