Masonic Temple Including Front Area Railings
MASONIC TEMPLE INCLUDING FRONT AREA RAILINGS, NORTHFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203045
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Masonic Temple Including Front Area Railings
- Statutory Address:
- MASONIC TEMPLE INCLUDING FRONT AREA RAILINGS, NORTHFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203045
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Masonic Temple Including Front Area Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- MASONIC TEMPLE INCLUDING FRONT AREA RAILINGS, NORTHFIELD ROAD
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:
- MASONIC TEMPLE INCLUDING FRONT AREA RAILINGS, NORTHFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilfracombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SS5159947635
Details
SS5147
853-1/6/106
16/07/87
ILFRACOMBE
NORTHFIELD ROAD
(East side)
Masonic Temple including front area railings
GV
II
Masonic Temple. Dated 1899, by HM Gardner of Ilfracombe.
MATERIALS: bath stone ashlar front; side walls rendered.
Asbestos-slated roof with red ridge-tiles.
PLAN: narrow-fronted oblong plan.
EXTERIOR: front designed after the style of a classical
temple, using columns with capitals of 4 different orders.
One storey. 3 round-arched openings with moulded archivolts
springing from plain-shafted columns. Central entrance with
6-panelled door and patterned fanlight flanked by paired
columns; Composite to left and Corinthian to right.
Either side, a round-arched window with small panes of frosted
glass and a margins of narrow red panes; transom at the
springing level. A single Ionic column to right and left.
The whole front flanked by full-height, paired Tuscan columns,
broken forward and supporting an entablature and triangular
pediment. In the centre of the entablature, a plaque inscribed
MASONIC TEMPLE in raised letters; in the tympanum, also in
relief, the Masonic emblem and date A.D. 1899.
Because of the fall in the ground, the left-hand pair of
columns has a high pedestal inset into which is a white marble
slab carved with the masonic emblem and carrying the
inscription in lead: LODGE CONCORD NO.1135. THIS STONE WAS
LAID BY THE WORSHIPFUL BRO. C.C.DAVIE P.M. 251 P.A.G.D. OF
CERS.ENG. D.P.G.M. FOR DEVONSHIRE MAY 10 1899. WOR BRO.
A.H.FISHER W.M. It is signed Huxtable Sculptor (JP Huxtable of
Ilfracombe).
There is only one opening in the side-walls, a doorway with
6-panelled door on the right-hand side. The front area railing
has spear-head uprights and standards, these alternating with
pairs of uprights sharing a looped top.
INTERIOR not inspected.
The Masonic Temple forms a group with Northfield House and
No.3 Northfield Road (qv).
(Ilfracombe Chronicle: Hussey AT: 13.8.1937: 8).
Listing NGR: SS5159947635
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390246
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ilfracombe Chronicle in 13 August, (1937), 8
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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