Bridge Street Methodist Church
BRIDGE STREET METHODIST CHURCH, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207160
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Street Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE STREET METHODIST CHURCH, BRIDGE STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12593/11
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207160
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Street Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE STREET METHODIST CHURCH, BRIDGE 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:
- BRIDGE STREET METHODIST CHURCH, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Mansfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK5416961075
Details
SK5461
924-1/6/16
MANSFIELD
BRIDGE STREET
(North side)
Bridge Street Methodist Church
GV
II
Methodist church. 1864. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings
and hipped slate roof. Italianate style. Plinth and eaves
band.
2 storeys; 3 x 6 windows. 3-bay west front has first-floor
band and moulded cornice, with pierced balustrade and corner
pedestals topped with urns. Recessed central bay has a portico
in antis with 2 columns and pilasters with Corinthian
capitals. On either side, a segment-headed double door. Above,
a round-arched triple window with polychrome head, hoodmould
and central keystone. Cornice dated 1864 in Roman numerals.
Side bays have rusticated pilasters with scroll brackets to
the cornice. Single round-arched windows with polychrome
heads, keystones and hoodmoulds, and below, triangular-headed
windows with hoodmoulds.
Each return has a similar single window on each floor. On
either side, 6 round-headed windows with keystones and below,
6 triangular-headed windows.
East end has a central projection with lean-to roof and a
central gable containing a round window. On either side, a
single round-headed window.
INTERIOR has moulded cornice and cross beam ceiling with oval
ventilators. Panelled gallery, curved at the rear, with
fleurons and dentillated top edge, carried on twisted
cast-iron columns with composite capitals. At each end 2
doors, those to rear with cornices. At the front, enriched
panelled choir gallery on cast-iron brackets. Above, panelled
elliptical arch with enriched spandrels and panelled pilasters
with composite capitals, framing central round window flanked
by single round-headed windows.
At the rear, central stained-glass window and above, triple
round-headed window flanked by similar single windows. Ground
floor has stained-glass windows, late C19 and early C20.
Gallery side windows have stained-glass memorial panels.
Entrance lobbies have wooden dogleg stairs with stick
balusters and ramped handrails, and double doors to gallery.
FITTINGS: circular rostrum with ornate cast-iron railing.
Square wooden pulpit on tapered wooden base flanked by square
pedestals with Ionic corner columns and ornate cast-iron
railing. On the front of each pedestal, a bronze war memorial
plaque under a wooden pediment. Matching communion table. Box
pews throughout.
MEMORIALS include a resited marble tablet, 1818, and 6 small
brasses and tablets.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Williamson E:
Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 170).
Listing NGR: SK5416961075
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391670
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 170
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/26980
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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