Methodist Church
METHODIST CHURCH, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219963
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHURCH, CASTLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219963
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHURCH, CASTLE STREET
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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:
- METHODIST CHURCH, CASTLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dursley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75607 98190
Details
DURSLEY CASTLE STREET ST 7598 (north-east side) 5/8 Methodist Church GV II
Methodist church. 1864. Coursed rubble limestone; ashlar dressings and south front; Welsh slate roof. Rectangular with entrance and staircase lobby at south end. Attached rooms at north end. South front: 3-bay with panelled pilasters and round-arched arcading, centre bay being smaller; enriched keystones; dentil course below moulded parapet cornice topped by weathered coping with transverse roll mouldings. Single tall round-arched window to larger bays each with moulded hood projecting forward and supported on scrolls. Large C20 glazed doors at centre with round- arched relieving arch over. Side returns to lobby have further single arcaded bay as to front but with coursed rubble infill. Parapet gable end to main church block with dressed coping on stepped bedding and blocked central oculus. Sides: arcaded and 4- bay, each having round-arched window in upper part and square- headed in lower. Gabled 2-storey block runs across north end with single large segmental-arched multi-paned sash to upper floor centrally below gable, that on east side replaced by glazed doors to C20 external staircase. Interior has painted moulded panelling throughout. Gallery on 3 sides supported on fluted cast-iron columns with Corinthian capitals. Panelled front to gallery with dentil cornice at base. Organ in apsidal niche at centre of gallery. Octagonal timber pulpit within balustraded enclosure, all with barleysugar balusters. Present church is replacement for building opened in 1799. Forms part of group of buildings around Market Place. (A. Best et al, An Historical Survey of Dursley, 1985)
Listing NGR: ST7560798190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 393812
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Best, A, An Historical Survey of Dursley, (1985)
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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