Wesleyan Chapel
WESLEYAN CHAPEL, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197396
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Wesleyan Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- WESLEYAN CHAPEL, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197396
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Wesleyan Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESLEYAN CHAPEL, KING 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:
- WESLEYAN CHAPEL, KING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridgwater
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 30016 36986
Details
BRIDGWATER
ST3036 KING STREET 736-1/9/128 (West side) 16/12/74 Wesleyan Chapel (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET (West side) Methodist Church)
GV II
Wesleyan Chapel, now furniture store. 1816 date on upper platband; a large tablet below pediment inscribed "RAISED AND ENLARGED 1860" refers to building of front narthex, heightening of side walls and ceiling and refitting of interior. Flemish-bond brick with stone coping, platband, cornice, arcade, rusticated pilasters and plinth; double-Roman tile roof. Rectangular plan. Classical style. 2 storeys. 5-bay front with pedimented central 3 bays brought forward, with parapet swept down either side. Gothick-style windows with intersecting glazing bars, some with hinged top opening casements: one breaks cornice of parapet above 3 rectangular recesses including date panel, and others to first floor are set in semicircular arched recesses; all set in gauged semicircular arched surrounds. Flat-roofed narthex or porch, curved at corner into Dampiet Street on left, has rusticated pilasters flanking 3 semicircular arched doorways with moulded archivolts and keystones supported on each side by small Ionic columns with moulded cornices, paired to the centre, and resting on the plinth; the early C19 interior wall has similar gauged brick arches over 2 tall windows flanking wide double doors of 2 panels with large overlights. 6-window left return and partly obscured right return has similar Gothick-style fenestration. Rear and lower 2-storey block of 1860 has 6/6-pane sashes to 2-window front to Dampiet Street. INTERIOR: the south west end has a pointed-arched hoodmould over 3 Gothic recesses, that to centre is stilted. Cast-iron columns support a trellised horseshoe-shaped cast-iron balcony to the other three sides and some stepped platforms to former seating remain. To back of balcony is an elaborate c1860 cornice and frieze. (Stell C: Non-conformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in SW England: London: 1991-: 169; Buildings of England: Pevsner N: South and West Somerset: London: 1958-: 96).
Listing NGR: ST3001636986
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373944
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958), 96
Stell, C, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in South West England, (1991), 169
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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