Bridport Arts Centre
BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227853
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Bridport Arts Centre
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE, SOUTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227853
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Sept-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Bridport Arts Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE, SOUTH 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:
- BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE, SOUTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridport
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 46624 92880
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/09/2011
5191
SY 4692 1/112
28.11.50
SOUTH STREET
(East Side)
Bridport Arts Centre
[formerly listed as
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel]
GV
II
Designed 1838 (Foundation stone laid 21st March: opened 28th November). Architect:
James Wilson FSA, of Belmont, Bath. Builders; Charles and Joseph Galpin
of Bridport. Former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. Stucco. Hipped slate roof.
4 giant Doric pilasters taking full entablature and pediment. 2 giant fluted
Ionic 3/4 columns in antis flanking central bay. 3 round-arched sashes with
glazing bars and moulded surrounds on 1st floor. 2 segment-headed blind panels
on ground floor with shouldered moulded surrounds. Double doors with 2 moulded
panels and shouldered moulded surround, up flight of 5 steps. "Wesleyan Methodist
Chapel" in contemporary lettering on frieze.
Interior. Moulded cornice. Shallow segmental barrel vault. Galleries (added
in 1855) round 3 sides on 7 iron columns; panelled parapet with anthemia ornament,
some fluted muntins with scrolled consoles, modillion cornice. Chancel opening
through arch with panelled Composite pilasters, moulded voussoirs and fluted
keystone. Below this is a remarkable wooden preaching gallery approached by
1 curved flight of steps on each side: arcuated balustrade, scroll shaped
newels with dentilled tops. Gallery taken on 3 arches (2 round, 1 segmental),
with panelled square columns, foliate mediaeval capitals, moulded voussoirs,
fluted keystones; moulded cornice above, parapet with arcade of square columns
taking round arches with moulded voussoirs and imposts, keystones and modillioned
cornice.
Nos 3 to 9 (odd), the Bridport Arts Centre, annexe to the Bridport Arts Centre.
Nos 11 to 17 (odd) and 17B and 17A form a group with the Greyhound Hotel,
East Street.
Listing NGR: SY4662492880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402334
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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