Methodist Church
METHODIST CHURCH, HUXTABLE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1218040
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHURCH, HUXTABLE HILL
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14194/24
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1218040
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHURCH, HUXTABLE HILL
- Statutory Address 2:
- METHODIST CHURCH, OLD MILL ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHURCH, HUXTABLE HILL
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHURCH, OLD MILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 90290 63934
Details
TORQUAY
SX9063 OLD MILL ROAD, Chelston 885-1/17/333 (North side) Methodist Church
GV II
Methodist chapel. 1908 (datestone). Rock-faced local red sandstone with Bathstone dressings, yellow brick dressings to hall to rear; natural slate roof, stone slates to spire. Gothic style, a conscious foil to the parish church of St Luke, Warren Hill (qv), across the valley. PLAN: Chancel, nave, 5-bay north aisle; south-east tower; west end hall roofed at right-angles. EXTERIOR: East end gabled with a moulded doorway with tympanum carved with trefoil containing date; flanking lancet windows. Triplet of one-light traceried windows above. Set-back buttresses to the right with pinnacle gabled on 4 sides with spinelet finial. Tower to the left square on plan broached to octagonal belfry stage and tall pyramidal roof with stone slates; tower has trefoil-headed windows. Buttressed north aisle with lean-to roof and one-light traceried windows. Westernmost bay gabled to the front with a 2-light window. South elevation similar. 2-window link block to hall is 2 storeys with crank-headed windows on each side. Hall crosswing has large 4-light crank-headed windows to gabled north and south ends and one-window elevations to the west. Doorway to hall on south side in link block. INTERIOR: Not inspected but contains complete set of ornate Art Nouveau glass. Chelston, a suburb of Torquay, is a well-preserved C19 development with detached villas and later terraces built on picturesque hilly ground. The spire of the Methodist church is an important feature.
Listing NGR: SX9029063934
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390729
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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