The Old Chapel
THE OLD CHAPEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087682
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1957
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD CHAPEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087682
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD CHAPEL
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:
- THE OLD CHAPEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wetheral
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 46547 56649
Details
WETHERAL WARWICK NY 45 NE The Old Chapel 6/157 (formerly listed as Warwick Methodist Sunday 1. 4. 57. School and Sunday School Cottages) ) II
Workshop and houses, formerly school. Before 1828, for Thomas Parker of Warwick Hall, as a Sunday School. Red sandstone ashlar front walls with coursed rubble and brick arched windows at sides, slate roof. Large Greek revival school of 2 storeys with wings of 2 cottages of single storeys, 2 bays, each. Plain pilasters at angles, with pedimented gable in moulded stone above. Grecian style entrance, 4 metres high with moulded surround and cornice supported by ornamental console brackets. Circular opening in centre of pediment probably intended to take clock. Wings with pedimented slated gables to front have sash windows with glazing bars, except one replaced by C20 casement of single panes. By 1847, used as Wesleyan Chapel. Pevsner (Buildings of England) mistakenly refers to it as formerly Methodist.
Listing NGR: NY4654756649
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 77739
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland, (1967)
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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