Wesley Methodist Church
WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH, VICTORIA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250538
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Wesley Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH, VICTORIA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250538
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Wesley Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH, VICTORIA ROAD
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:
- WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH, VICTORIA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Hartlepool (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 50864 32571
Details
HARTLEPOOL VICTORIA ROAD NZ 5032 (north side) 10/127 Wesley Methodist Church.
GV II
Church, 1871-73, by Hill and Swan. Brick with stone dressings and sandstone ashlar facing to principal east front. Hipped slate roof. 2 storeys and basement. 5 bays to front. Flight of 12 stone steps leads up to Corinthian tetrastyle portico in middle 3 bays, with full entablature continued over end bays and supported on angle pilasters. Pediment with lunette surrounded by foliate ornament. Round-headed door and window openings with archivolts and impost mouldings continued as string courses. Leaded lights to end bays of which ground-floor windows have balustraded aprons. Sashes to first floor of middle bays and 3-panelled double doors below, with leaded-light fanlights. Band between floors; parapet with balustraded panels to end bays. Side elevations are of 7 bays. Blocked flat-arched basement windows and round-headed windows with stone hood-moulds and impost bands to ground and first floors. Leaded lights to ground-floor windows, sashes to first floor where stone sills are continued as band. Later church hall adjoining north-west corner is not of interest. Disused at time of survey, when the galleried interior had been extensively damaged.
Listing NGR: NZ5086432571
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432938
- 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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