Methodist Chapel
METHODIST CHAPEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231521
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHAPEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231521
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHAPEL
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:
- METHODIST CHAPEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Freshford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 78550 59851
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:-
ST 75 NE FRESHFORD SHARPSTONE
5/55 Methodist Chapel
II GV
Methodist Chapel. Built c.1783 and extended 1850. Limestone ashlar, with pantile roof to late. C18 part and Welsh slate roof to mid C19 part.T-plan with mid C19 extension forming cross wing to right. One-storey late C18 facade of 3 bays, with central doorway having C20 plank doors set in ogee-headed ovolo-moulded architrave flanked by Y-tracery windows with late C19 glazing-bar casements set in pointed moulded arches. Gable end to right, of mid C19 wing, has 3 double-chamfered graduated lancets set above pointed- arched doorway with plank door. Right side wall has 4 chamfered lancets. Rear of late C18 part has 2 similar Y-tracery windows set in pointed arches and a late C18 panelled door. Interior: late C18 chapel has original coved cornice. Mid C19 chapel has mid C19 pews, balcony with Gothic-style front set on cast-iron columns, corbels to arch-braced king-post roof and a reredos made of reset late C18 fielded panelling. Opened C.1783 by John Wesley, who preached here several times and mentioned it in his journals.
Listing NGR: ST7855059851
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32418
- 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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