WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH

WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH, UPPER HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177898
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1961
List Entry Name:: WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH
Statutory Address:: WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH, UPPER HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177898
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1961
List Entry Name:: WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH, UPPER HIGH STREET

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

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:: WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH, UPPER HIGH STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Castle Cary
National Grid Reference:: ST 64335 32410

Details

CASTLE CARY CP UPPER HIGH STREET (South side) ST6432 6/122 Wesleyan Methodist Church 24.3.61 GV II Methodist Church. c1840. Cary stone rubble, Doulting ashlar facade; Welsh slate roof, hipped at south end, gabled to north, with prominent metal ridge ventilator. Two-storey elevations, 3x3 bays. Plinth, band courses and swept gable, with octagonal corner piers having bell-shaped tops; centre bay projects slightly. Semi-circular arched leaded windows in plain openings; large panelled door in plain semi-circular arch with Gothic style traceried fanlight; on gable a bell-shaped plaque with "Wesleyan" on bottom band. Two tiers matching windows to sides. Interior not seen. Occupies dominant position in High Street, and therefore important streetscape element.

Listing NGR: ST6433532410

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Legacy System number:: 262055
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.