Newtown Methodist Chapel Including Iron Railings
NEWTOWN METHODIST CHAPEL INCLUDING IRON RAILINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107231
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Newtown Methodist Chapel Including Iron Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NEWTOWN METHODIST CHAPEL INCLUDING IRON RAILINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107231
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Newtown Methodist Chapel Including Iron Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEWTOWN METHODIST CHAPEL INCLUDING IRON RAILINGS
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:
- NEWTOWN METHODIST CHAPEL INCLUDING IRON RAILINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Nympton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 76453 25190
Details
SS 72 NE BISHOP'S NYMPTON NEWTOWN
2/55 Newtown Methodist Chapel including - iron railings
II
Wesleyan Methodist chapel. 1849 (datestone). Stone rubble, snecked on the south side, facing the road; slate roof, gabled at ends. Gothick. Plan: A small rectangular chapel with the entrance at the west end, a C19 lean-to at the east end. Exterior: 3 windows to the south side, 2 to the north, all 2-centred arched Gothick with intersecting glazing bars. The west end has a central 2-centred arched doorway with a recessed door flanked by 2-centred arched blind recesses painted with intersecting glazing bars. Datestone of 1849 with WESLEYAN CHAPEL above west door. The C19 east end lean-to has a doorway on the south side. C19 cast iron railings on a stone plinth form an enclosure at the west end and return along the south side. The railings at the west end have shaped brackets and are divided into bays by standards with spiky fleur de lis finials. Interior: Not inspected but has a C20 ceiling. A very unspoiled chapel externally.
Listing NGR: SS7645325190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97587
- 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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