Talbot Lane Methodist Church
TALBOT LANE METHODIST CHURCH, SHIP HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192669
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Talbot Lane Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- TALBOT LANE METHODIST CHURCH, SHIP HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192669
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Talbot Lane Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- TALBOT LANE METHODIST CHURCH, SHIP HILL
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:
- TALBOT LANE METHODIST CHURCH, SHIP HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 42859 92620
Details
SK4292 ROTHERHAM SHIP HILL (west side) 9/66 Talbot Lane Methodist Church - II Church. 1903 by Morley and Son of Bradford (Rotherham Advertiser). Thinly- coursed sandstone, ashlar dressings and spire, graduated slate roof. Reversed orientation with entrances in east gable having tower with spire to left and apsidal stair projection to right; 4-bay nave with aisles and transepts, apsidal chancel with additions to each side, meeting room beneath. Gothic Revival, geometrical tracery. Tower: 3 stages. Angle buttresses with ashlar offsets and gablets. Door in east side with hoodmould. 2 string courses beneath 2nd stage which has 2 tall lancets. 3rd stage has blind panel of 4 cusped openings and embattled band beneath tall, 2-light, window with leaded lights and 2 orders of colonnettes in the jambs. Buttresses rise as attached octagonal turrets with crocketed spirelets to flank crocketed gable above window. Octagonal, ashlar, spire with 2 string courses below and above lucarnes, weathervane. Entrance gable set back to right has angle buttress to right rising as octagonal pinnacle. Paired doorways each in gabled projection flanked by pinnacled buttresses and with granite colonnettes to pointed arches. Double doors with cusped-panel overlights, gables with Tudor-flower ornament and finials. 2 string courses continue from tower beneath 5-light window with 2 king mullions and hoodmould. Stepped 4-light window to main gable has projecting sill with carved ends and shared hoodmould. Gable copings with finial. Lower 2-storey apsidal projection to right has door with hoodmould and string course with buttress rising from it between small 2-light windows; ashlar parapet with ogee-headed panels. Side walls of nave have buttresses between bays and string courses below and above paired aisle windows. 3-light gallery windows with hoodmoulds. Transepts have two 2-light windows beneath 4-light gallery windows. Chancel: 4-light altar window flanked by angled single lights. Tower to stair projection on north side. Interior: well preserved. Gallery on 3 sides of nave continuous across transepts, cast-iron columns. Coved ceiling to side galleries. Bow-string trusses to nave. Pine pews and gallery balustrade. Art Nouveau electroliers to body of nave, matching fittings to aisles and galleries. Oak font and pulpit. Oak chancel fittings with traceried panelling to rear of choir stalls. Altar window by S. Evans of Smethick (1903). Meeting room below chancel has 2 Art Nouveau fireplaces. Replaces church destroyed by fire in 1901. Details of competition for the design in Rotherham Advertiser, May 3rd, 1902, p5.
Listing NGR: SK4285992620
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335701
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rotherham Advertiser in 3 May, (1902), 5
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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