Bethel Methodist Church

Bethel Methodist Church, Carr House Road

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1184633
Date first listed:
29-Apr-1982
List Entry Name:
Bethel Methodist Church
Statutory Address:
Bethel Methodist Church, Carr House Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1184633
Date first listed:
29-Apr-1982
Date of most recent amendment:
02-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:
Bethel Methodist Church
Statutory Address 1:
Bethel Methodist Church, Carr House Road

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Bethel Methodist Church, Carr House Road

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

District:
Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SE 12760 28913

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 February 2021 to reformat the text to current standards

SE 12 NW
1/48

SHELF
CARR HOUSE ROAD (south side)
Bethel Methodist Church

(formerly listed as Shelf United Methodist Church under Shelf)

29. 4. 82

II
Chapel. Bearing date plaque 1853. Hammer-dressed stone, slate roof square on plan with Sunday School rear wing. Two storeys. Plinth, four bay facade has doorways with flat pilasters and cornice to outer bays. Between are two semi-circular arched sash windows retaining original glazing. To first floor are four similar windows. Return walls of four similar bays of windows. Those to first floor light gallery. Pyramidal roof, moulded cornice with gutter brackets.

Interior: horse shoe shaped gallery retains its box pews. The organ is set within an elliptical arched recess which has architrave rising from moulded impost supported by console. Plaster ceiling has central floral motif with dove to centre carrying laurel leaf.

Listing NGR: SE1276028913

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
338962
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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