MOUNT SION METHODIST CHURCH AND HOUSE ATTACHED

MOUNT SION METHODIST CHURCH AND HOUSE ATTACHED, PER LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1254018
Date first listed:: 23-Nov-1973
List Entry Name:: MOUNT SION METHODIST CHURCH AND HOUSE ATTACHED
Statutory Address:: MOUNT SION METHODIST CHURCH AND HOUSE ATTACHED, PER LANE

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Date:: 2006-06-27
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1254018
Date first listed:: 23-Nov-1973
List Entry Name:: MOUNT SION METHODIST CHURCH AND HOUSE ATTACHED
Statutory Address 1:: MOUNT SION METHODIST CHURCH AND HOUSE ATTACHED, PER LANE

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

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:: MOUNT SION METHODIST CHURCH AND HOUSE ATTACHED, PER LANE

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

District:: Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE0679529694

Details

SE 02 NE 679/4/334 23.11.73 PER LANE (North side) Mount Sion Methodist Church And House Attached

II*

Chapel and attached house. 1773, chapel rebuilt 1815, interior refitted c1870. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings and stone slate roofs with coped gables with moulded kneelers. 2 stone stacks and metal ventilator. Chapel has main south front with 2 round arched windows with margin light glazing flanked by single round arched doorways with impost blocks and keystones, each with a plank door and partly boarded fanlight. Central vesica shaped plaque inscribed "This chapel was rebuilt in the year 1815". Above a reset sundial dated 1773 and inscribed "Mount Sion". Above 4 further round arched windows with margin light glazing. East elevation has 2 round arched windows with margin light glazing to each floor, above a central semi-circular window with keystone and similar glazing. North elevation has large semi-circular apse flanked by single flat-headed windows with similar margin light glazing to each floor. Apse has single small window to ground floor and above 2 round headed windows with margin light glazing and keystones. INTERIOR has fine quality Victorian fittings including galleries on 3 sides supported on cast iron columns. Elaborate central reading desk with right staircase with cast iron balustrade. Behind choir gallery and organ in semi-circular apse topped with the date 1773. Minister's house to west, 2 storey with render side and rear. Quoins. South front has projecting gabled porch to left and single 5-light ashlar mullion window and above single similar 5-light window. West gable elevation has single small fixed light and upper 2-light casement. North front has doorway to right with ashlar surround and 5-light mullion window to left. Above a 3-light and a 2-light mullion window.

Listing NGR: SE0679529694

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Legacy System number:: 437335
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.