BETHEL FREE CHURCH INCLUDING NUMBER 12

BETHEL FREE CHURCH INCLUDING NUMBER 12, 12, TORRINGTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200947
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:: BETHEL FREE CHURCH INCLUDING NUMBER 12
Statutory Address:: BETHEL FREE CHURCH INCLUDING NUMBER 12, 12, TORRINGTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200947
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:: BETHEL FREE CHURCH INCLUDING NUMBER 12
Statutory Address 1:: BETHEL FREE CHURCH INCLUDING NUMBER 12, 12, TORRINGTON STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BETHEL FREE CHURCH INCLUDING NUMBER 12, 12, TORRINGTON STREET

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

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Bideford
National Grid Reference:: SS 45684 26347

Details

BIDEFORD

SS4526 TORRINGTON STREET, East-The-Water 842-1/7/266 (East side) No.12 Bethel Free Church including No 12

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Chapel and adjacent house, now incorporated behind a single facade. 1877, enlarged 1888. Solid rendered front; left side-wall of chapel is of stone rubble. Slate roofs. Large chimney of old red-brick on right-hand end of ridge at No 12; appears to be shared with No 14. Late C19 or early C20 red-brick chimney on top of front wall of No 12, to left. 2 storeys. Gabled chapel-front to left, 4 windows wide; No 12, to right, 3 windows wide. Ground-storey of combined front is horizontally channelled and finished with a raised band. Upper storey has raised quoins at each end. Chapel has deeply-recessed 2-panelled double-doors at each end of ground storey, the upper panels with raised centres, the lower ones flush. Door to No 12 (set between the 2 right-hand ground-storey windows) has 4 flush panels; secondary door, in place of left-hand window, has 4 moulded panels. Windows in both storeys have 2-paned sashes with margin-panes; those in second storey have moulded architraves. Gable of chapel has lightly-moulded coping, kneelers, and tall, cross-like finial; in the centre of the gable is a large panel with moulded frame and the inscription BETHEL in high relief. No 12 has a heavily-moulded eaves-cornice. Rear wall of No 12 (visible from former railway station) has 6-paned sash-windows in upper storey. INTERIOR not inspected. Included for group value. (Wilson's Bideford Directory: 1913-: P.63).

Listing NGR: SS4568426347

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Legacy System number:: 375947
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Wilson, , Directory of Bideford, (1913), 63

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.