Sharon Methodist Chapel at Thornham Chapel Cross
SHARON METHODIST CHAPEL AT THORNHAM CHAPEL CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107327
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Sharon Methodist Chapel at Thornham Chapel Cross
- Statutory Address:
- SHARON METHODIST CHAPEL AT THORNHAM CHAPEL CROSS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107327
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Sharon Methodist Chapel at Thornham Chapel Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHARON METHODIST CHAPEL AT THORNHAM CHAPEL CROSS
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:
- SHARON METHODIST CHAPEL AT THORNHAM CHAPEL CROSS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Worlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 77714 14901
Details
EAST WORLINGTON SS 71 SE 8/6 Sharon Methodist Chapel at Thornham 3.10.75 Chapel Cross - II Methodist chapel and adjoining schoolroom. Built 1849, 1908 addition. Random rubble to early part, bitumen-treated to the west gable face, later part of coursed rubble blocks of irregular size, brick dressings at the corners, gabled slate roofs with crested clay ridges, brick stack to the east, cast-iron gutters and downpipes; weatherboarded timber-framed shed attached to the west, painted corrugated-iron sheeting roof. Plan: the chapel to the left is rectangular on plan with a blocked central entrance on the front. In 1908 a schoolroom was added set back on the right hand end with a front doorway to the left of the front. Set back again to the right an outshut with a leanto in the angle at the front. In the C20 a weatherboarded shed was added to the left side of the chapel. The chapel and schoolroom are in late Gothick style. Exterior: main elevation facing onto the roadside of a single-storey, 2-window chapel, single bay schoolroom set at back to right, multi-paned casements in pointed-arch openings, brick dressings, renewed concrete cills, head of each window with intersecting Gothick glazing. Door opening to centre between the 2 halves. brick dressings, plank door in wooden frame with painted graining. Outshut to right with a 3-light casement with horizontal glazing bars, 2 door openings with plank doors. Interior: was refitted in the mid C19, including pews, pulpit, dado panelling, a chimneypiece to the schoolroom and further joinery. Attached run of wrought-iron railings to frontage encloses small graveyard, simple style with hooped tops. 2 gateways with iron finials in conforming style. In an isolated though prominant roadwide position. Source: C Stell, RCHM unpublished, Non-Conformist Chapels.
Listing NGR: SS7771414901
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97411
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stell, C, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in South West England, (1991)
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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