School Adjoining Wesleyan Memorial Church
SCHOOL ADJOINING WESLEYAN MEMORIAL CHURCH, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068787
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- School Adjoining Wesleyan Memorial Church
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL ADJOINING WESLEYAN MEMORIAL CHURCH, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068787
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- School Adjoining Wesleyan Memorial Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOOL ADJOINING WESLEYAN MEMORIAL CHURCH, HIGH 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:
- SCHOOL ADJOINING WESLEYAN MEMORIAL CHURCH, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Epworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 78122 03837
Details
SE 7803-7903 EPWORTH HIGH STREET (south side)
20/78 School adjoining Wesleyan Memorial Church
GV II
School. 1888-9 by Charles Bell. Rock-faced ashlar to front and sides, yellow brick to rear; ashlar dressings throughout. Welsh slate roofs. Rectangular on plan: schoolroom with 3 adjoining single-room wings to north, main entrance lobby and covered annexe to right adjoining Wesleyan Memorial Church (qv), small hall and outhouses adjoining to rear. Forms south side of courtyard. Tall single-storey schoolroom with lower single-storey front wings and adjoining ranges. North front: 3 adjoining single-bay wings flanked by main entrance lobby to right, secondary entrance set back to left. Chamfered plinth, quoins. Gabled wings each have single 3-light ashlar mullioned-and-transomed window with pointed lights beneath pointed rusticated arches, linked by a flush ashlar band at impost-eaves level. Central gable is topped by a tall stepped stack with ashlar offsets and triple cylindrical shafts; flanking wings have string courses and blind quatrefoil panels beneath stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers and trefoil finials. Low single-storey range to right has main entrance breaking forward with double board doors with ornate wrought ironwork in pointed double-chamfered arch with hoodmould and carved stops beneath coped gable; twin lancets to right with hoodmould. Section to right adjoining church has 3-light mullioned-and-transomed window with pointed lights. Secondary entrance to schoolroom to left has chamfered rounded-trefoil arch with pointed hoodmould, and board door with ornate wrought ironwork, beneath moulded string course and coped parapet. East gable end: schoolroom has large pointed 4-light plate-traceried window with pointed transomed lights beneath moulded string course and foiled round light, hoodmould and head stops; pierced quatrefoil above. South side (rear) has projecting central gabled wing with traceried ashlar oculus, flanked by single buttresses and 3-light mullioned-and-transomed windows to each side beneath segmental arches. School room and smaller hall adjoining to east both have coped gables with shaped kneelers and trefoil finials. Interior: largely unaltered, with corbelled arch-braced roof to schoolroom, panelled ceilings, panelled doors, etc. Part of an unusually ornate group of Methodist buildings, erected in commemoration of the founder of Methodism, John Wesley (1703-91), and the Wesley family of Epworth. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SE7812203837
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165139
- 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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