Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL, NORTHGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1226441
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL, NORTHGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1226441
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL, NORTHGATE
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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:
- WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL, NORTHGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Heptonstall
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 98771 28160
Details
SD 9828SE HEPTONSTALL C.P. NORTHGATE (east side) Heptonstall
9/109 Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
1.11.66
G.V. II*
Chapel, c.1764 to design recommended by John Wesley who laid the foundation stone, extended 1802. Watershot masonry, ashlar dressings, slate roof. 2 storeys. Irregular octagon originally built as symmetrical octagon. Chamfered plinth, rusticated quoins, band. Central doorway, now partly blocked to form a window with stained glass, has tall monolithic jambs, semi-circular arched head with moulded impost and triple keystone. Angled faces to either side have tall doorway with monolithic jambs and square fanlight. 1st floor has windows with plain stone surrounds and projecting sills with coloured glass margin panes. Longer sides have 2 similar windows to each floor. Tripartite hipped roof believed to be constructed by the same carpenter who had made the Rotherham Octagon (1761). Interior: Gallery with canted ends carried on stone Tuscan columns:entablature has plaster cast of laurel leaves. Some box pews to main body, raked seating to gallery. Minister's tall pulpit with en-suite altar rails and small organ behind, all contemporary with early C19 alteration. Octagonal plaster boss to ceiling. Some stained glass windows. Copper plaque (on outside) inscribed: " HEPTONSTALL METHODIST CHAPEL THE OLDEST METHODIST CHAPEL IN THE WORLD IN CONTINUOUS USE. THE SOCIETY WAS FOUNDED BY WILLIAM DARNEY ABOUT 1742 THE REV. JOHN WESLEY PREACHED AT HEPTONSTALL FOR THE LAST TIME IN 1786"
Illustrated in K. Parry, Trans-Pennine Heritage (1981) p.66; D. Linstrum, West Yorkshire, Architects and Architecture, (1978) p.197.
Listing NGR: SD9877128160
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 423735
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 197
Parry, K, Trans Pennine Heritage Hills People and Transport, (1981), 66
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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