Methodist Church, School Room, Coach House and Attached Walls

METHODIST CHURCH, SCHOOL ROOM, COACH HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, FRONT STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1157925
Date first listed:
19-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Methodist Church, School Room, Coach House and Attached Walls
Statutory Address:
METHODIST CHURCH, SCHOOL ROOM, COACH HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, FRONT STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1157925
Date first listed:
19-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Methodist Church, School Room, Coach House and Attached Walls
Statutory Address 1:
METHODIST CHURCH, SCHOOL ROOM, COACH HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, FRONT STREET

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
METHODIST CHURCH, SCHOOL ROOM, COACH HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, FRONT STREET

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

District:
North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Churchill
National Grid Reference:
ST 44352 59773

Details

ST 45 NW CHURCHILL C.P. FRONT STREET (north side)

8/80 Methodist Church, School Room, Coach House and attached Walls

G.V. II

Methodist Church, School Room and Coach House. Dated 1879 (on east gable end of School Room). By Foster and Wood of Bristol. Squared and coursed rockfaced rubble with flush ashlar quoins and dressings, stone copings, plain tile roofs and brick stacks. 3-bay church at right-angles to road to left-hand linked to 4-bay School Room by 4-bay corridor with service rooms. School Room further linked by loggia to porte cochere and Coach House. The complex forms an irregular L-shaped plan. Free-form Gothic style. Church with south-east porch and south apsidal ending with cusped openwork panelled parapets and crocketted pinnacles. Windows are 2 and 3-cusped lights of florid Perpendicular style. North-east staircase turret with pyramidal cap for gallery access. Interior. South gallery, barrel roof in nave, canted barrel roof in chancel. Contemporary fittings and stained glass in all windows. School Room with cross-mullion windows under gabled heads. Some applied half-timbering with brick infil to east and west gable ends. Good dentil coursed bargeboards. Similar details to Coach House complex. Tall panelled brick stacks. Spear railings fence between buildings and graveyard. Boundary walls, 1 metre high, with gate entrances to east and west ends with fine cast iron gas lamp standards. Further walls and railings to Coach House courtyard. The complex, built for Sidney Hill of Langford House (q.v.), makes a fine group with the Clock Tower.(q.v.).

Listing NGR: ST4435259773

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
33948
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.

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