Methodist Church and Sunday School With Front Walls Steps Railings and Gates
METHODIST CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WITH FRONT WALLS STEPS RAILINGS AND GATES, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132146
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church and Sunday School With Front Walls Steps Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WITH FRONT WALLS STEPS RAILINGS AND GATES, CHAPEL STREET
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132146
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church and Sunday School With Front Walls Steps Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WITH FRONT WALLS STEPS RAILINGS AND GATES, CHAPEL 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:
- METHODIST CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WITH FRONT WALLS STEPS RAILINGS AND GATES, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grassington
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 00325 64290
Details
GRASSINGTON CHAPEL STREET SE 0064-0164 (east side) 8/16 Methodist Church and Sunday School with front walls, steps, railings and gates. II Church and Sunday School with attached front walls, railings and gate. 1811, refronted 1825, and later C19. Coursed squared gritstone, graduated stone slate roof. Quoins to school, left. Church of 2 tall storeys, 3 bays, gable to street, the ground floor raised above street level. Single- storey 2-bay school building to left, the main floor raised over half- basement. Church: central double board doors in projecting round-arched surround with keystone; blind fanlight. Flanking 6-pane windows with margin lights in similar round-arched surrounds with blind fanlight. First floor: 3 round-headed 6-pane windows in surrounds as ground floor; projecting band at sill and eaves level. Shaped kneelers, gable coping. School: 6-panel central door in plain stone surround with cornice, flanked by tall 2-light flat-faced mullion windows with 8-pane sashes. The sub- basement has a low board door and window to right and probably a blocked opening to left of the central steps. Stone gutter brackets, tall ashlar stack to ridge left, and a shorter stack to rear ridge, right, possibly rising from the eaves line of the church. Both school and church doors are reached by a flight of approximately 8 steps; the church forecourt has flanking walls approximately 2 metres high, stepped down across the front to 8 courses, approximately 1 1/2metres, with ridged coping stones and single blocks flanking the gateway. The railings are wavy, with acorn finials to the standards; the double gates have bars and dog-bars, single lock rails and scrolled tops. School front wall is approximately 1 metre high, with single block piers to the single leaf gate and stepped up on the left side to meet building frontage. Bulbous standards to front railings; ornate scrolled balusters support a handrail flanking the steps. Interior, church: 5 probably original cast-iron pillars support the gallery which is reached by stairs to left and right of the entrance lobby. 1825 and late C19 furnishings and large organ at the east end. Interior, school: boarded inner porch, large single room, small iron grate to fireplace against left wall. I. Goldthorpe, One Hundred Things to see on a walk through Grassington, 1988, (booklet).
Listing NGR: SE0032564290
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324768
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Goldthorpe, I, One Hundred Things to See on a Walk Through Grassington, (1988)
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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