Former Wesley Chapel
FORMER WESLEY CHAPEL, SUNDERLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206955
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Former Wesley Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER WESLEY CHAPEL, SUNDERLAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206955
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Former Wesley Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER WESLEY CHAPEL, SUNDERLAND STREET
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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:
- FORMER WESLEY CHAPEL, SUNDERLAND STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Macclesfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 91944 73464
Details
MACCLESFIELD
SJ9173SE SUNDERLAND STREET 886-1/12/205 (East side) 17/03/77 Former Wesley Chapel (Formerly Listed as: SUNDERLAND STREET (East side) Wesley Chapel (Methodist) and Caretaker's House)
GV II
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, now snooker centre. Dated 1799, with C20 remodelling. Brick with Welsh slate roof. Pedimented gable faces Sunderland Street, 5-window returns expressed as 2-storeys. 4-bay elevation to street, with interlace tracery to upper windows, and simple Y-tracery to lower windows, which have painted stone aprons inscribed 'erected 1779' and 'enlarged 1799'. Return elevations have similar fenestration. Doorways in moulded stone architraves to north and south now disused, the present entrance in extension to rear. INTERIOR: the original interior has apparently been entirely gutted on adaptation to a new use.
Listing NGR: SJ9194473467
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391112
- 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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