The New Room
THE NEW ROOM, BROADMEAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1202025
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The New Room
- Statutory Address:
- THE NEW ROOM, BROADMEAD
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- 1999-09-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/01089/05
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1202025
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The New Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE NEW ROOM, BROADMEAD
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:
- THE NEW ROOM, BROADMEAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59091 73386
Details
BRISTOL
ST5973 BROADMEAD, Broadmead 901-1/40/481 (North side) 08/01/59 The New Room (Formerly Listed as: BROADMEAD Wesley's Chapel)
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Shown on OS map as John Wesley's Chapel. Chapel. 1739, enlarged 1748. Possibly by George Tully. Restored 1929 by Sir George Oatley. Roughcast with limestone dressings and hipped pantile roof. Aisled hall plan, with galleried interior lit by central octagonal lantern. Mid Georgian style. 2 storeys; 2-window range. The S front has a square-headed door with pronounced jambs and key, semicircular 10/10-pane sash window above, and 2 first-floor windows with segmental heads to 8/8-pane sashes. N front has a central segmental-arched doorway beneath a segmental-arched window with 10/10-pane sashes, and 3 second-floor windows with 6/6-pane sashes. INTERIOR: 4 bays with Tuscan columns, carrying panelled galleries to the sides which curve in to the S end window. A tall central octagonal lantern lit by 10/10-pane sash windows to each side, and with 6/6-pane sashes to upstairs rooms to N and S; NE conference room; first-floor has central full-length dining room with Doric pilasters and study rooms to E and W with fireplaces, one with an elliptical rubbed-brick arched surround and blue tiles. FITTINGS: a 2-tier pulpit at the E end with ramped handrail and railed area in front, with column-on-vase balusters, box pews to centre and fronts of galleries, fixed benches to sides, and original communion table; organ by John Snetzler, 1761, given 1939; poor box, 1755, on N door. HISTORICAL NOTE: the first Methodist meeting room in the world, bought by Wesley and Whitefield in 1739 and enlarged in 1748. Originally square and with an entrance from the N, it was extended by the addition of a further bay and an entrance from Broadmead. The restricted site required living accommodation to be placed over the Meeting Room, and the whole interior to be lit by the lantern. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 130; Sell: John Wesley's Chapel: Bristol; An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels...in Central England: Stell C: Gloucestershire: London: 1986-: 65).
Listing NGR: ST5911373251
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379024
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986), 65
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979)
Stell, C, John Wesley's Chapel Bristol, ()
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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