United Reform Church and Former Manse, With Railings
UNITED REFORM CHURCH AND FORMER MANSE, WITH RAILINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179198
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- United Reform Church and Former Manse, With Railings
- Statutory Address:
- UNITED REFORM CHURCH AND FORMER MANSE, WITH RAILINGS
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- Date:
- 2003-06-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/10710/07
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179198
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- United Reform Church and Former Manse, With Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITED REFORM CHURCH AND FORMER MANSE, WITH RAILINGS
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:
- UNITED REFORM CHURCH AND FORMER MANSE, WITH RAILINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Muker
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- NY8929901136
Details
NY 80 SE
7/143
MUKER
KELD
United Reform Church and former Manse, with railings
GV
II
Chapel, former manse and railings. Dated 1860. Rubble with ashlar
dressings, stone slate roof, wrought-iron railings. Single-storey chapel,
with 2-storey manse to left, and 2-storey porch to chapel in centre.
Rusticated quoins overall, and to porch. Chapel: 2 round-arched sash
windows with glazing bars in ashlar surrounds with small keystones. Ashlar
copings. End stack to left. Porch: hammer-dressed ashlar dressings with
smooth margins. Round-arched doorway with quoined and voussoired surround
with roll-moulding to arris, board door. Bench-mark to left. Above,
sundial dated 1840 in square surround. To first floor, a round-arched
opening in ashlar surround with small keystone containing 2-pane window and
panel inscribed "KELD CHAPEL REBUILT 1860". Coped gable and on apex, round-
arched bellcote. Single-storey reading-desk projection on right return.
Interior of chapel: panelled west gallery on 2 cast-iron columns.
Semicircular arch between chapel and reading-desk recess. Carved minister's
seat, and decorative cast-iron front to dais. Original pews. Memorial wall
slabs to Mr Edmund Alderson Knowles of Low Row, d.1835, who gave a field on
Kisdon, called Broken Intake, as an endowment for the ministers of the
chapel; and Rev Edward Stillman, d.1837, minister of the chapel. Manse:
coursed rubble. 2 first-floor windows. To right, board door in round-
arched ashlar surround with small keystone. Sash windows in ashlar
surrounds. Shaped kneeler and ashlar coping to left. Stacks to left end
and centre. In front of whole building, low rubble wall with saddleback
ashlar coping supporting short railings with spear finials. Gate to manse
between monolithic ashlar gate-piers with pointed caps. Gates to chapel
porch between larger monolithic ashlar gate-piers with pyramidal caps.
Replaced the Independent Chapel built 1789. VCH i, p.238.
Listing NGR: NY8929901136
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322228
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 238
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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