Hartpury Methodist Chapel
HARTPURY METHODIST CHAPEL, OVER OLD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078672
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hartpury Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- HARTPURY METHODIST CHAPEL, OVER OLD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078672
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hartpury Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARTPURY METHODIST CHAPEL, OVER OLD ROAD
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:
- HARTPURY METHODIST CHAPEL, OVER OLD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hartpury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 80284 24595
Details
SO 82 SW HARTPURY OVER OLD ROAD
9/58 Hartpury Methodist Chapel
II
Former Wesleyan, now Methodist Chapel; 1887 (foundation stone); English bond red brick, blue brick and stone dressings; tiled roof, crested ridges. 4-bay, 2-storeys (lower is Sunday School). Gable to road: splayed blue brick top to plinth: square set buttresses to corners and to centre, with stone offsets. Two twin lancets, stone sills, springers and keystones, rubbed brick arches: plain blue brick bands at sill and springing level across gable. Circular window above, 2 plain blue-brick bands and louvred lancet above. Dentil verge, slightly returned at foot; weathervane at apex. Right return, porch on left, up 6 stone steps, side buttresses, blue-brick band at springing of 2-centred arch to doorway, dentil verge to gable with terracotta finial. Double boarded door inside. Blue-brick offset at chapel floor level, buttresses between each bay, with twin lancets to chapel, blue brick arches over. Dentil eaves, bottom course missing: chimney on right gable. Below, 2 twin-lancets on right, with beyond boarded door with plain fanlight under flat-pointed head. Interior: boarded floor to chapel, vertical boarding to dado; red brick above with yellow and blue brick dressings, paired to form alternate voussoirs to windows: cogged course of bricks in side walls above windows. Original stained pews; pulpit at right-hand end, up steps on each side with trefoil heads to panelling. Raised enclosure in front, timber rail with twisted iron supports with leaf tops. Behind pulpit a large, pointed arch half fills wall, infilled with cream, glazed tiles, with a text and some decoration. Boarded roof, with exposed quasi-hammerbeam trusses, tie beam completed with iron rod, supported by iron 'king-post' in centre. Sunday school below, 3 bays at road end, row of cast-iron columns down centre, lobby, kitchen and vestry other end. All glass obscured or coloured. Unaltered example of late C19 non-comformist chapel; prominent in landscape.
Listing NGR: SO8028424595
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 125590
- 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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