The Methodist Centre
THE METHODIST CENTRE, TOWN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255812
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- The Methodist Centre
- Statutory Address:
- THE METHODIST CENTRE, TOWN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255812
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Methodist Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE METHODIST CENTRE, TOWN 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:
- THE METHODIST CENTRE, TOWN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 30609 37074
Details
LEEDS
SE3037SE TOWN STREET, Chapel Allerton 714-1/55/603 (North East side) 05/08/76 The Methodist Centre (Formerly Listed as: TOWN STREET, Chapel Allerton Methodist Youth and Community Centre)
GV II
Wesleyan Sunday school, now community centre. 1794, converted to school 1878, and altered C20. Ashlar, slate hipped roof. 2 storeys, 3 x 7 round-arched windows. Gable entrance with panelled double doors with fanlight in shallow porch with attached Tuscan columns supporting moulded triangular pediment; flanking 4-pane sashes with stone apron below; taller 8-pane sashes above. Moulded stone eaves cornice, the triangular pediment over the slightly-projecting 3-window central part has a circular stone plaque with raised lettering: 'WESLEYAN/ SUNDAY SCHOOL/ 1878'. Returns: sashes with glazing bars to ground floor, 8-pane above. INTERIOR: not inspected. The original Wesleyan chapel was built in 1794 on this site; a new church was built in 1874 on Harrogate Road (demolished). (Faulkner, R: Chapel Allerton, from Village to Suburb: Leeds: 23).
Listing NGR: SE3060937074
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465617
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Faulkner, R, Chapel Allerton From Village to Suburb, (), 23
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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