MORLEY CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH

MORLEY CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH, WESLEY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1250732
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1982
List Entry Name:: MORLEY CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH
Statutory Address:: MORLEY CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH, WESLEY STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1250732
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1982
List Entry Name:: MORLEY CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: MORLEY CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH, WESLEY STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MORLEY CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH, WESLEY STREET

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

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Morley
National Grid Reference:: SE 26386 27607

Details

SE2627NW LS27 WESLEY STREET MORLEY (south side)

8/66 Morley Central Methodist Church 30.4.82

- II

Queen Street Methodist Church now Methodist Chapel. 1862 by James Simpson. Hammer-dressed stone, ashlar dressings, Welsh blue-slate roof. 2 storeys. 4-bay symmetrical front. Rusticated quoins. Plinth, lst-floor sill band, pedimented gable. The central 2 bays have close-set pair of large portals framed by Doric piers with engaged Doric columns, deep entablature. Flanking windows in shouldered plain-stone surrounds with keyed cambered heads. Consoles to sills. lst-floor windows have keyed archivolted arches with pilaster jambs, framed by pilaster strips with carved fluted console brackets to cornices over. Bracketed pediment with same moulding returned to sides as eaves cornice. The tympanum contains a large oculus on acanthus rinceaux scrolled base and supports. Left-and right-hand returns of 6 bays of similar windows to front all with margin and leaded glazing.

Interior: unaltered and finely-furnished with apsidal ended gallery, box pews, ornate panelled and turned pulpit, table and rails with organ loft behind containing a Binns Organ of 1920/21. Stained glass windows c1901. Contains seating for 1,000.

Listing NGR: SE2638627607

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Legacy System number:: 433186
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.