Methodist Church
METHODIST CHURCH, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240124
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHURCH, SOUTH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240124
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHURCH, 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:
- METHODIST CHURCH, SOUTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Manningtree
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 10708 31649
Details
MANNINGTREE SOUTH STREET TM 1031 (east side)
9/186 Methodist Church, (formerly the Wesleyan Chapel)
GV II
Methodist Church. Circa 1807. White brick, stone dressings, plastered returns, grey slate roof. 2 storeys. Of 5 bays, the upper storeys set back. Ground floor, pilastered, parapeted and corniced end bays, each with a cetnral window with glazing bars and margins, brick surrounds. In line stone cornice to open portico, 2 fluted columns with capitals and bases resting on dwarf walls which become plinths to end bays. Step approach between the columns, 4 panelled doors to end bays. Round headed windows with glazing bars to right and left of central panelled doors, round headed fanlight with glazing bars over, right and left brick pilasters. First floor, the outer bays of 2 stepped blocks, outer with stone cornices and parapets and angle pilasters, taller inner blocks with brick cornices and parapets. Central arcade of 3 round headed windows with glazing bars, pilasters between and to right and left, cornice over frieze with centre panel reading Methodist Church, moulded pediment over surmounted by a painted cupola. Square base, sunk chamfered angles continued through moulded cornice and tall dome. Elaborate weathervane, louvres to main faces. The full height second bay to returns are plastered, upper windows with glazing bars and margins, ground floor vertically boarded door to left, blocked to right. The plastered returns of 2 storeys and 4 bays, eaves band, pilasters between windows and band below lower windows, panels between upper and lower windows. Lower windows rectangular, upper with round heads, all with glazing bars and margins.
Listing NGR: TM1070831649
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438155
- 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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