Former Park Methodist Church and attached Sunday School

The Richard Oastler public house, Bethel Street, Brighouse, HD6 1JN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1133851
Date first listed:: 29-Apr-1982
List Entry Name:: Former Park Methodist Church and attached Sunday School
Statutory Address:: The Richard Oastler public house, Bethel Street, Brighouse, HD6 1JN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1133851
Date first listed:: 29-Apr-1982
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: Former Park Methodist Church and attached Sunday School
Statutory Address 1:: The Richard Oastler public house, Bethel Street, Brighouse, HD6 1JN

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: The Richard Oastler public house, Bethel Street, Brighouse, HD6 1JN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 14632 22805

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 April 2021 to update the name and address, and reformat the text to current standards

SE 1422 NE 6/5

BRIGHOUSE BETHEL STREET (north side) The Richard Oastler public house Former Park Methodist Church and attached Sunday School (Formerly listed as Park Methodist Church and attached Sunday School, previously listed as Park Methodist Church)

29.4.82 II Former chapel and sunday school. 1876 by R. F. Rogerson. Dressed stone with good ashlar dressings, slate roof. Freely handled transitional style. Two storeys. Five bay hall range flanked by square towers with slated iron crested pavilion roofs. The east tower rises a full stage higher, its return splayed with side elevation following street alignment. Strongly modelled false machicolated eaves cornice. To the base of each tower is a portal of two orders with stiff leaf impost, string carried in over doorhead, panelled tympanum, deeply roll-moulded each on one quarter jamb shafts but the whole is contained by crocket-finialed gable. The first floor of towers has large Romanesque window with arched lights and circular light to head. The top stage of east tower has an ogee capped oculus. The stiff leaf impost string and partly corbelled sill course are carried over from towers on the first floor of the five bay range meeting an arcade of windows recessed in two orders with a quarter jamb shafts. Ground floor segmented arched windows. Right hand return wall two storeys of nine uneven sized bays. Three-light mullioned windows to first bay, two-light to second, all others single light. Ground floor has segmental arched lintels, first floor has semi-circular arched heads and longer windows, moulded gutter brackets and square stack to right hand end.

Listing NGR: SE1463222805

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Legacy System number:: 338767
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.