Methodist Chapel
METHODIST CHAPEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130790
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHAPEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130790
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHAPEL
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:
- METHODIST CHAPEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Melbecks
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 95062 98130
Details
MELBECKS GUNNERSIDE SD 99 NE 15/89 Methodist Chapel GV II
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. Dated 1866. Coursed watershot rubble with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 3 bays to front and sides. Openings have projecting ashlar surrounds with roll moulding to arrises. Ashlar plinth with bench mark, rusticated quoins. Central doorway has round-headed arch with imposts, voussoirs, keystone and double board doors. Windows: round-headed arch with imposts and keystone to surrounds, 8-pane sashes. First floor windows have sill band and a pair of windows over door. Band forms pediment on gable. In tympanum, plaque with inscription 'WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL ERECTED 1866', and above it, circular opening with timber ventilation grille. Ashlar copings, at apex of gable a spiked ball with obelisk finial, on pedestal. Side elevations: on ground floor, sash windows with glazing bars in quoined surrounds, on first floor 8-pane sashes in round-headed surrounds. Interior: gallery on cast-iron columns, some original furnishings. Replaced chapel of 1789 on same site, and some tombstones in graveyard older than present building.
Listing NGR: SD9506298130
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322028
- 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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