United Reformed and Methodist Church
UNITED REFORMED AND METHODIST CHURCH, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118967
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1975
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed and Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- UNITED REFORMED AND METHODIST CHURCH, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118967
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1975
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed and Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITED REFORMED AND METHODIST CHURCH, EAST STREET
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:
- UNITED REFORMED AND METHODIST CHURCH, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridport
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 46757 92863
Details
5191
SY 4692 1/262
EAST STREET
(South Side)
United Reformed and
Methodist Church
GV
II
1859. Architects Poulton and Woodman of Reading. Hammer dressed stone with
ashlar dressings. Pitched roof. Nave and 2 aisles. "W" front expresses this
by buttresses with setbacks crowned by octagonal spirelets with steep gablets
on each side. Coped gable end, crow-stepped at very top and crowned by tall
finial. Large 5-light grouped lancets, centre 3 lights grouped together under
1 arch and divided from remainder by colonnettes: reticulated tracery hood
mould. Pointed arch in gable end with Geometrical tracery. Porch to each
aisle with very steep roof, coped gable ends and finials, diagonally planked
double doors with ornamental iron hinges, in cusped pointed arches with hood
moulds. Star-shaped windows above each porch. Side elevations have 6 lancets
with shaped arches, separated by buttresses.
Interior. Open hammerbeam timber roof on foliate corbels. Galleries round
3 sides on twisted iron columns. Rib-vaulted apse approached through arch
on shafts with elaborate foliate capitals, corbelled out from wall; "O Worship
the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness" painted round extrados. Gabled and crocketed
organ in apse. Panelled pulpit. Early C17 polygonal pulpit with 2 tiers
of arcading, originally in the church at Charmouth. It was from this pulpit
that the Vicar of Charmouth (John Wesley's great-grandfather) was preaching
while the fugitive Charles II was waiting for the ship which failed to take
him into exile in 1651.
Nos 8 to 36 (even) form a group with the United Reformed and Methodist Church.
Listing NGR: SY4675792863
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104543
- 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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