Spa Lane Methodist Church
SPA LANE METHODIST CHURCH, SPA LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135059
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Spa Lane Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- SPA LANE METHODIST CHURCH, SPA LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135059
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Spa Lane Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPA LANE METHODIST CHURCH, SPA LANE
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:
- SPA LANE METHODIST CHURCH, SPA LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Boston Spa
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 43314 45537
Details
SE 4245-4345 BOSTON SPA SPA LANE LS23 (west side)
6/87 Spa Lane Methodist 30.4.82 Church
GV II
Methodist church. 1846. By Messrs. Atkinson of York (Scott, p.52). Ashlar magnesian limestone, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with half basement, 3 x 4 bays; short, narrower wing to rear centre. In simple Italianate style. Gabled front with plinth and central steps to a projecting, ashlar sandstone doorcase having panelled double-door in eared architrave beneath stone transom and plain fanlight and with fielded-panel pilasters, archivolt with keystone and peaked cornice. Small round-headed casements to each side have architraves with acroteria. 1st floor: moulded sill band to a stepped 3- light window with margin-glazed casements in round-headed architraves, the central light with an acroterion. Gable barge board. Rear: lower wing has window of 3 round-headed lights under rusticated relieving arch; gable oculus with 'Star of David' glazing bars. Right return: plinth band rises in segmental arches over 4-pane, basement sashes and door on right. Plain casements to ground floor in ashlar surrounds with rusticated, segmental- arched heads. 1st floor: sill band from front forms impost band to round- headed 4-pane sashes under rusticated arches; moulded eaves band. Left return: lean-to addition of 1986, otherwise same. Interior: contemporary fittings with pitch-pine box pews and gallery set on fretted brackets. Semi-octagonal pulpit behind bobbin-turned balustrade; round-arched organ recess to its rear. Queen-post trusses also on fretted brackets and subdivided by struts. Foundation stone laid November 1846; dedicated October 1847; the £1000 building debt finally paid off in 1863 (Scott, p.52). B. M. Scott, Boston Spa, 2nd edition, 1985.
Listing NGR: SE4331445537
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342008
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Scott, BM, Boston Spa, (1985), 52
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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