The Methodist Church
THE METHODIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213152
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- THE METHODIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213152
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE METHODIST CHURCH, HIGH 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:
- THE METHODIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witney
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3567409899
Details
WITNEY HIGH STREET
SP3509N
10/157 The Methodist Church
GV II
Church. 1850 by J. Wilson of Bath. Coursed limestone rubble; gabled Welsh slate
roof. Gabled west front; gabled offset buttresses; hood mould over 4-light
Decorated-style window above studded doors set in pointed moulded doorway; hood
moulds over cinquefoil-headed lancets, each with mouchettes in head to
side-aisles. 5-bay side walls have ogee and cinquefoil-headed lancers. East rose
window of quatrefoils with stained glass. Interior: gallery to sides, with
open-quatrefoil frieze. East wall has pointed-arched doorways flanking pointed
moulded blind arch set on engaged shafts with foliate capitals. 5-bay
hammer-beam roof. Late C19 extension to rear is not of special architectural
interest. Included for group value.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.846).
Listing NGR: SP3567409899
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397695
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 846
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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