Independent Methodist Chapel
INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHAPEL, GEORGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1201672
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Independent Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHAPEL, GEORGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1201672
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Independent Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHAPEL, GEORGE 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:
- INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHAPEL, GEORGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 92391 04861
Details
OLDHAM
SD90SW GEORGE STREET 780-1/3/32 (West side) 02/08/83 Independent Methodist Chapel
II*
Methodist chapel. 1815. Brick, with Welsh slate roof. 4-window range, unequally divided, and built on a sloping site with basement to rear, and entrance up steps to right. Tall windows with stone sills and flat-arched brick heads, with stained glass margin lights. Paired panelled doors in stone pedimented architrave with cast-iron railings and gates. Blind basement windows. Stack on left-hand gable end. Paired high windows each side of stack in gable wall. Lower side similarly detailed but with full basement with 3 doors with stone sills and jambs, and windows partially blocked. INTERIOR: Galleries to three sides, the frontals with sunken panels, all supported on cast-iron columns (each with knop and moulded capital). Complete set of panelled box pews. Tiered seats around rostrum below organ. Queen post roof. Basement rooms have certain features including fireplaces with simple stone surrounds and grates. Said to be the oldest place of worship in Oldham for Methodists.
Listing NGR: SD9239204858
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388895
- 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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