Emmanuel Church
EMMANUEL CHURCH, WILDER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209025
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Emmanuel Church
- Statutory Address:
- EMMANUEL CHURCH, WILDER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209025
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Emmanuel Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- EMMANUEL CHURCH, WILDER 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:
- EMMANUEL CHURCH, WILDER 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:
- SS 51802 47724
Details
ILFRACOMBE
SS5147 WILDER ROAD 853-1/6/139 (South side) 12/03/90 Emmanuel Church (Formerly Listed as: WILDER ROAD (South side) Methodist Church)
II
Methodist Church. 1899-1900, by WH Gould of Ilfracombe. MATERIALS: squared local Plaistow stone rubble with dressings of Bath stone. Tiled roof with pierced crested ridge tiles. PLAN: main body of church runs east-west (from Market Street to Avenue Road) with gabled projections on north and south sides, 3 to south and 2 to north. At west end of north front (facing Wilder Road) is a square tower with spire. Entrance porches at east end of north and south sides, and attached to western projection on south side. Church at first floor level with Sunday School beneath. EXTERIOR: Early English style with lancet windows and angle buttresses. In east gable a more elaborate 5-light window with pointed arch, the outer lights paired under a single pointed arch with a trefoiled light in the head, the whole window having in its head a circular light enclosing 4 trefoiled lights. Front gable windows and main window in west gable are of 2 lights with round light in the head enclosing 4 smaller round lights. Windows contain coloured glass in small square leaded panes, except for the east window which has figures in coloured glass. Tower is in 3 stages, the narrower third stage with pinnacled, octagonal, angle turrets. Spire octagonal in plan with gablets in the sides. On centre of main roof a leaded fleche, square in section and diagonally-set; pointed roof, both this and the base with patterned rib work. INTERIOR not inspected. The site was formerly occupied by Ilfracombe cattle market. (Ilfracombe Chronicle 4.6.1937: Hussell AT: 7; Cherry B: Draft for rev. ed. of Pevsner's North Devon: Devon Record Office: 261).
Listing NGR: SS5180247724
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390280
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ilfracombe Chronicle in 4 June, (1937), 7
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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