Kings Court and Attached Gates

KINGS COURT AND ATTACHED GATES, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104380
Date first listed:
05-May-1972
List Entry Name:
Kings Court and Attached Gates
Statutory Address:
KINGS COURT AND ATTACHED GATES, KING STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104380
Date first listed:
05-May-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:
Kings Court and Attached Gates
Statutory Address 1:
KINGS COURT AND ATTACHED GATES, KING 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
KINGS COURT AND ATTACHED GATES, KING STREET

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Cheltenham (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SO 94547 22847

Details

CHELTENHAM

SO9422NE KING STREET 630-1/9/427 (West side) 05/05/72 Kings Court and attached gates (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET Former Ebenezer Chapel (Wesleyan Methodist))

II

Methodist chapel, now house and attached gates. Dated 1812 to tablet below pediment. By Charles Williams. Cost »2,424. Stucco over brick with ashlar plinth. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays. Narrow pedimented centre bay between wide wings with swept parapet. Windows: round-arched 8/8 sashes with radial glazing to heads in round-arched recesses. Bands over ground and first floors. Central entrance a part-glazed door with radial bar fanlight under replaced Doric portico. 2 low-storey, single bay range to left Right return has 2 levels of similar sashes in recessed with tooled architraves. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: double gates with bars and dogbars, urn finials to stanchions. One of the earliest chapels in Cheltenham, the facade is typical of many Late Georgian middle-sized urban chapels. (RCHME: Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Gloucestershire: London: 1986-: 77; Blake S: Cheltenham's Churches and Chapels AD 773-1883: Cheltenham: 1979-: 8-9).



Listing NGR: SO9454722845

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Legacy System number:
474808
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Sources

Books and journals
Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses Gloucestershire, (1986), 77
Blake, S, Cheltenhams Churches and Chapels AD 773-1883, (1979), 8-9

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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.

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