Bethesda Methodist Chapel
BETHESDA METHODIST CHAPEL, ALBION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195821
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Bethesda Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- BETHESDA METHODIST CHAPEL, ALBION STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195821
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Bethesda Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- BETHESDA METHODIST CHAPEL, ALBION 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:
- BETHESDA METHODIST CHAPEL, ALBION STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 88228 47351
Details
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SJ8847 ALBION STREET, Hanley 613-1/8/45 (South side) 19/04/72 Bethesda Methodist Chapel (Formerly Listed as: ALBION STREET, Hanley Bethesda Methodist Church)
GV II*
Methodist chapel. 1819 with additions of 1859 and 1887. Brick with stuccoed facade, and slate roof. 2-storeyed. Pedimented entrance front to Albion Street, with rusticated lower storey and full-length portico with heavy cornice carried on paired fluted Corinthian shafts. Paired doorways to left and right behind, the inner doors having entablatures carried on consoles, and the outer doorways with tall architraves. Central window with entablature carried on paired consoles. Palladian window over, with Corinthian shafts beneath central pedimented gable. Outer windows are sashes with margin lights. Rear of chapel is Flemish bond brickwork with buff headers. 5 bays and shallow curved apse. Windows with margin lights and stuccoed heads with expressed keystones (blocked to first floor). Central section of apsidal end expressed by raised section to cornice, with panelled decoration. INTERIOR: Previous description records a continuous raking gallery with a plaster vaulted soffit, carried on cast-iron columns. The balustrade is panelled, above a minimal Doric entablature with widely-spaced paterae. On the street side, the gallery is dominated by a large organ in a baroque case. Beneath it, at ground floor level, is a fine octagonal pulpit reached by two opposed flights of stairs, with cast-iron balustrades and hardwood handrails. The pulpit stands within a contemporary communion rail, of similar construction to the stair balustrades, defining an oval snactuary. Both are by Robert Scrivener, 1856. Half-glazed timber screens separate the stairs on the street front from the body of the church. With its pews and minor fittings largely intact, the interior stands virtually as it was finished in 1859 save for a replacement ceiling. The burial crypt below contains a monument to Rev. William Driver, 1831.
Listing NGR: SJ8822847351
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384364
- 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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