Methodist Church, Gates and Railings Fronting Road

METHODIST CHURCH, GATES AND RAILINGS FRONTING ROAD, STOOPER'S HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1248505
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Methodist Church, Gates and Railings Fronting Road
Statutory Address:
METHODIST CHURCH, GATES AND RAILINGS FRONTING ROAD, STOOPER'S HILL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1248505
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Methodist Church, Gates and Railings Fronting Road
Statutory Address 1:
METHODIST CHURCH, GATES AND RAILINGS FRONTING ROAD, STOOPER'S HILL

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
METHODIST CHURCH, GATES AND RAILINGS FRONTING ROAD, STOOPER'S HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Combe St. Nicholas
National Grid Reference:
ST3014211416

Details

COMBS ST NICHOLAS CP ST0OPER'S HILL (west side)
ST31SW
6/61 Methodist Church, gates and
railings fronting road
-

- II

Methodist church and church rooms. Dated 1896. Random rubble local stone, dressed quoins, slate roofs, overhanging
eaves, barge boards, boarded gable ends, terracotta finials. Church set gable end onto road facing east, south porch in
angle with 2 large rooms divided by folding doors, service area in north-east corner, East gable end 4-light window
with reticulated tracery, lean-to roofed porch, arch head doorway, plant door with decorative hinges, panelled inner
door, south front 2 gable ends with 4-light windows and inset canals with the names of donors, west front 2 sash
windows and porch set in angle with lean-to, north front 2 storey gable at Mast end with 2 sash windows first flour and
below, 4 to left. Interior: only partially seen. Church rooms with collar beam roofs and boarded ceilings, boarded
dados, south-west hall has gallery at north end supported on cast iron columns with stairs, panelled folding doors with
cast iron central column. Church interior not accessible at tide of survey (November 1985). Gates and railings set in
dwarf wall, Cast iron railings and gates, fleurs-de-lys heads. Random rubble dwarf wall with Portland stone coping.


Listing NGR: ST3014211416

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
430051
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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