Shefford Methodist Church
SHEFFORD METHODIST CHURCH, AMPTHILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113761
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Shefford Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- SHEFFORD METHODIST CHURCH, AMPTHILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113761
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Shefford Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEFFORD METHODIST CHURCH, AMPTHILL 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:
- SHEFFORD METHODIST CHURCH, AMPTHILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shefford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14091 38952
Details
TL 1438 SHEFFORD AMPTHILL ROAD 11/93
- Shefford Methodist Church
- II
Methodist church. Erected 1912 on site of Wesleyan chapel. (Kelly's Directory of Bedfordshire, 1914, p.168). Red brick with stone dressings. Slate roofs with terracotta ridge cresting. Rectangular building oriented N - S, with shallow transepts towards S end. Art Nouveau Gothic style, remarkably unaltered. N (road) gable: semi-octagonal porch to centre, from which rise 2 decorative buttresses. Small battered towers to corners. Stone banding and coping to gable and porch. Most windows have pointed-arched heads, with cinquefoiled ogee arch to each light. Central window is large, of 3 lights, flanking ones are long single lights. Corner towers have lancets. Small single lights to porch. Segmental-arched doorway contains 5-light fanlight above part-glazed double doors painted to imitate oak and retaining original strap hinges. Decorative stone tracery to apex of gable. Wrought ironwork decoration to roofs of corner towers. Other elevations: similar 2 and 3-light windows. Interior: apparently unaltered, the decorative features include moulded ceiling timbers, ogee-headed panelling to S end, fine Art Nouveau stained glass, and variety of brass fittings.
Listing NGR: TL1409138952
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 37647
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Bedfordshire, (1914)
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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