LONGHOLME METHODIST CHURCH

LONGHOLME METHODIST CHURCH, BACUP ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1072786
Date first listed:: 07-Jun-1971
List Entry Name:: LONGHOLME METHODIST CHURCH
Statutory Address:: LONGHOLME METHODIST CHURCH, BACUP ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1072786
Date first listed:: 07-Jun-1971
List Entry Name:: LONGHOLME METHODIST CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: LONGHOLME METHODIST CHURCH, BACUP ROAD

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

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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:: LONGHOLME METHODIST CHURCH, BACUP ROAD

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Rossendale (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 81201 22770

Details

SD 82 SW RAWTENSTALL BACUP ROAD

14/146 Longholme Methodist Church 7.6.1971 GV II

Wesleyan Methodist chapel, 1841-2, by James Simpson of Leeds (Pevsner). Sandstone ashlar, low-pitched slate roof. Rectangular plan 5 x 6 bays. Two storeys, symmetrical, Greek Revival: on 5 low steps a tetrastyle Ionic portico with pediment, tall double doorways in 2nd and 5th bays, 3 windows at ground floor, all these with architraves (shouldered at ground floor). Pilastered corners and side walls, which have round-headed windows on both floors, the upper with an impost band and archivolts. Interior: originally an oval gallery carried round the whole with pulpit at ground floor and organ above at the west end, but now altered, the ground floor ceiled to make a hall below and church above; most of the original raked and curved gallery benches remain. History: was originally centre of Rawtenstall Wesleyan Methodist circuit.

Listing NGR: SD8120122770

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Legacy System number:: 185724
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)

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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.