Former Moor Park Methodist Church
FORMER MOOR PARK METHODIST CHURCH, GARSTANG ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207287
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Moor Park Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER MOOR PARK METHODIST CHURCH, GARSTANG ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207287
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Moor Park Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER MOOR PARK METHODIST CHURCH, GARSTANG 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:
- FORMER MOOR PARK METHODIST CHURCH, GARSTANG ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Preston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 53642 30657
Details
PRESTON
SD53SW GARSTANG ROAD 941-1/1/144 (East side) 23/07/84 Former Moor Park Methodist Church
GV II
Methodist chapel, now mosque. 1862, by Poulton and Woodman of Reading. Orange brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Aisled rectangular plan at right-angles to road, with semi-circular portico at west end. Simplified Italianate style. Tall centre with storeyed aisles, 1:4:1 windows; stone plinth, ground floor sill-band and band linking 1st-floor windows, moulded frieze and cornice, pedimented centre with acroteria. The centre has a semicircular portico of giant round-headed arches with keystones carried on square columns with composite capitals, a 4-band frieze and deep dentilled cornice with antifixae; under the portico, coupled doorways and tall windows; and above the portico 3 low windows forming an arcade breaking into the pediment, with a keyed oculus above. The flanking bays each have a narrow round-headed arch containing a window on each floor, the upper round-headed and the upper half in a stone arch with imposts and keystone, rising from the band. The 6-bay side walls have similar windows coupled in pairs with giant stone mullions. All the windows have margin panes and circular glazing bars. INTERIOR: horseshoe gallery on slender octagonal cast-iron columns, with upper aisle arcade of round-headed arches; round-headed arch at east end, with organ; tiered rostrum with bowed reading desk flanked by curved stairs; original pews.
Listing NGR: SD5364230657
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392028
- 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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