Watlington Methodist Church
WATLINGTON METHODIST CHURCH, 14, SHIRBURN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181410
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Watlington Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- WATLINGTON METHODIST CHURCH, 14, SHIRBURN STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-02-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/03457/28
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181410
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Watlington Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATLINGTON METHODIST CHURCH, 14, SHIRBURN STREET
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:
- WATLINGTON METHODIST CHURCH, 14, SHIRBURN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Watlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 69048 94516
Details
WATLINGTON SHIRBURN STREET SU6994 (East side) 7/209 No.14 (Watlington Methodist Church)
GV II
Wesleyan chapel, now Methodist Church. Datestone 1812 in tympanum. Front of Flemish bond brick with flared headers; gabled Welsh slate roof. Pedimented front of 2-storey, 3-window range. Gabled C20 porch. Gauged brick round arches over panelled double-leaf door with Gothick fanlight and C20 casements. Stone string course and moulded cornice; wrought-iron antefixae surmount pediment. Round arch over similar sash windows in each side wall. Interior: early C19 wall tablet, pews and pulpit. Winder stairs with stick balusters and wreathed handrail to balcony supported on cast-iron columns: balcony has early C19 benches and late C19 organ. Blind triple arcade of pointed chamfered arches has late C19 four-panelled doors to rear hall.
Listing NGR: SU6905994517
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247682
- 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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