Methodist Chapel

Newbury Methodist Church, Northbrook Street, Newbury, RG14 1AN

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1211202
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1977
List Entry Name:: Methodist Chapel
Statutory Address:: Newbury Methodist Church, Northbrook Street, Newbury, RG14 1AN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1211202
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1977
List Entry Name:: Methodist Chapel
Statutory Address 1:: Newbury Methodist Church, Northbrook Street, Newbury, RG14 1AN

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Newbury Methodist Church, Northbrook Street, Newbury, RG14 1AN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Newbury
National Grid Reference:: SU 47026 67501

Details

SU 4767 NW 4/162 SU 4767 SW 6/162

NORTHBROOK STREET Methodist Chapel

30.9.77

GV II*

1837-8 (Pevsner, Berkshire p 181). Non-conformist chapel in quasi-Early English style (exterior only). Three bay front with projecting central entrance bay and five bay return. Bath stone ashlar. Welsh slate roof. Parapet with modillion brackets carried round to form coped gables at ends. Shallow buttresses with weathered offsets. Central entrance bay flanked by six-stage, octagonal buttress-turrets terminated by cupola with finials. Lancet windows with hood moulds: entrance front with three-light window and quatrefoil lunette in gable. Central arched entrance to porch with hollow moulding and ogee hood-mould with finial. Similar, smaller flanking doorways in porch additions.

Very rare, unaltered Gothic interior with galleries on four sides carried on elongated Corinthian columns of cast-iron. Gallery parapet with arcaded panels and moulded rail. Octagonal stone pulpit in front of communion recess with arcaded panels and entered by elegant wooden geometrical staircase with wrought iron railings. Communion table in three-bay recess arcaded - Communion rail and painted tables of the Lord's Prayer, Creed, and Commandments. Organ at west end over gallery with carved wooden case. Flat ceiling with moulded ribs, foliated corbels and ceiling roses. Stone font originally sited alongside pulpit, now moved to side aisle. Portable font basin with cover, carried on octagonal column.

Listed in Grade II* as a rare and good example of an early C19 Methodist Church interior.

Listing NGR: SU4702667501

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 395747
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 181
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.