Downicarey Methodist Church and Schoolroom Adjoining at South East
DOWNICAREY METHODIST CHURCH AND SCHOOLROOM ADJOINING AT SOUTH EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164727
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Downicarey Methodist Church and Schoolroom Adjoining at South East
- Statutory Address:
- DOWNICAREY METHODIST CHURCH AND SCHOOLROOM ADJOINING AT SOUTH EAST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164727
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Downicarey Methodist Church and Schoolroom Adjoining at South East
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWNICAREY METHODIST CHURCH AND SCHOOLROOM ADJOINING AT SOUTH EAST
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:
- DOWNICAREY METHODIST CHURCH AND SCHOOLROOM ADJOINING AT SOUTH EAST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broadwoodwidger
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 37051 90151
Details
BROADWOODWIDGER SX 39 SE 5/28 Downicarey Methodist Church and - schoolroom adjoining at south east GV II Methodist church and adjoining schoolroom. Stone rubble with slate roofs gabled at ends, the schoolroom adjoining at the left has a rendered chimney at the left end. Unusually small church and schoolroom, the church with Gothic style windows. Single storey, the schoolroom with a lower roof and a separate entrance. 2-bay chapel with a small gabled porch to the left with a doorway on the right return and a blocked pointed window to the front with an eared architrave picked out in paint. To the right of the porch a 3-light pointed window with glazing bars has an eared shouldered architrave picked out in paint. 2 similar rear windows to the chapel. The schoolroom is entered on the front at the right and has one 3-light casement with 3 panes per light to the left with a shouldered painted architrave. Interior The roof trusses of the chapel are early C19 with a tie beam and queen struts with pendants above curved braces that spring from a moulded wallplate. A simple rostrum has blind Gothic arcading and is flanked by arcaded rails. Rectangular bench ends. A circular central ventilator in the ceiling has an outer plaster moulding.
Listing NGR: SX3705190151
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90730
- 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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