Methodist Church
METHODIST CHURCH, UNION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197556
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHURCH, UNION ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197556
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHURCH, UNION 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.
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:
- METHODIST CHURCH, UNION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 83365 00280
Details
CREDITON
SS826000 UNION ROAD 672-1/5/166 (North side) Methodist Church
GV II
Methodist Church. 1891 (datestone). Flemish bond brick with local volcanic trap and Ham Hill stone dressings; slate roof with ornamental ridge tiles; tiled roofs to front bays. Eclectic mixture of Gothic and Vernacular Revival with some polychromatic detail. Plan: rectangular on plan, 5-bay main block with smaller chancel-like block at the north end. South end has an entrance narthex between projecting entrance bays. Exterior: Symmetrical. Gabled to the front with a coped gable with kneelers, gable filled with volcanic trap brought to course. Large central Ham Hill rose window in a moulded 3-centred arched architrave has a hoodmould with a fleur-de-lis finial, the lower spandrels filled with quatrefoils in roundels. Steps up to an embattled 2-bay narthex in the centre with moulded stone 2-centred arches and a central column with moulded capital. To left and right, projecting stair bays with battered plinths and rock-faced volcanic trap quoins have hipped tiled roofs with terra cotta finials. The bays are glazed with timber ribbon windows below the eaves, returning to left and right, glazed with leaded panes with plain stained glass. In the centre of each bay the sills are dropped to form a 2-light window with cinquefoil-headed lights and 2 transoms. In the narthex boarded doors to left and right give access to the entrance bays. The returns are buttressed with a moulded brick band below the eaves and another, carried out round the butresses, forming the sills of the first floor windows. Segmental-arched ground floor windows with high transoms. Similar first floor windows with stained glass above the transoms. The lower-roofed block at the north end has a traceried north window. Interior: Not inspected but may retain fittings of interest. Foundation stone laid by Lady Lymington, September 4 1891.
Listing NGR: SS8336500280
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387118
- 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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