Central Methodist Church
CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH, DAWSON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1229012
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Central Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH, DAWSON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1229012
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Central Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH, DAWSON STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH, EMMERSON 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:
- CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH, DAWSON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH, EMMERSON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 16615 35502
Details
CROOK AND WILLINGTON EMMERSON STREET
NZ 13 NE
(South side)
24/24 Central Methodist
Church
II*
Primitive Methodist Chapel, named and dated 1868 in pediment. Sandstone ashlar
with pink granite columns flanking door; Welsh slate roof. Pedimented front of
2 storeys and 3 bays has moulded plinth; chamfered rusticated ground floor. 8
steps, the top one renewed, to central 4-leaf 8-panelled door and lunette in
round-headed moulded keyed surround, recessed between attached columns with
stone Corinthian capitals. Keyed, moulded round-headed surrounds to flanking
aproned windows recessed in square panels. Double cyma recta ground-floor
cornice, breaking forward over door, supports balustrades of first-floor windows,
the central paired, which have low segmental heads and cord-moulded surrounds
under bracketed drip-moulds with carved central finials. Deeply-moulded
pediment on richly-carved cornice has sunken centre containing oval date-panel
with cord-moulded frame and lily finial. Roof has 2 ogee-stopped ridge
ventilators. Dwarf walls flanking steps have chamfered coping; wrought-iron
handrails have down-curved ends. Interior: painted plaster above boarded dado;
slender cast-iron columns with crocket capitals, support continuous gallery on
3 sides, with cast-iron bombe balustrade which has ivy-leaf decoration in 4
petals on circle motif; similar more slender posts in gallery. Large panelled
pulpit with side steps in front of organ which is set in moulded arch on
Corinthian pilasters. Flanking panelled wood screens to minister's and choir's
vestries. Iron balustrades on rear gallery stairs in entrance foyer with tiled
floor. Ceiling with moulded decoration is deeply coved along the long axis; 3
ceiling roses contain pierced cones which formerly held light fittings suspended
by ratchet control. Glass in simple floral patterns c.1925, as memorials to
members of the congregation, and west window as First World War memorial.
Listing NGR: NZ1661535502
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403773
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/71456
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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