Grove Methodist Church
Grove Methodist Church, Town Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261152
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Grove Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- Grove Methodist Church, Town Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261152
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Grove Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- Grove Methodist Church, 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:
- Grove Methodist Church, Town Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Horsforth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 23712 37912
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 July 2021 to reformat text to current standards
SE 23 NW
8/154
HORSFORTH
TOWN STREET LS18 (east side)
Grove Methodist Church
(Formerly listed as Wesleyan Chapel and Old Barn)
30.9.1975
GV
II
Methodist Church.Dated 1867 on porch. Coursed rock-faced sandstone, Welsh slate roofs. Gothic style. Nave on north-south axis, with north chancel, east and west transepts, and unususal external porch-cum-stair turret at south-west corner. Prominent porch, treated as a tower, of elongated hexagonal plan on axis parallel to church, has coupled two-centred-arched doorways (entrance to left, gallery staircase to right), both with shafts which have stiff-leaf capitals, all within a slightly projected gabled surround containing a foliated medallion with monogrammed date; steeply-pitched saddle-back roof with ornamental wrought-iron cresting on the ridge. Four-bay nave has two-centred-arched three-light plate-traceried windows (three on west side, four on east side), and in the south gable a large plate-traceried "west" window of five lights with a multifoil in the head. Transepts each have five triangular-headed lancets at ground floor, and a large plate-traceried circular window above. Steeply-pitched roof.
Interior: gallery at south end; arch-braced hammer-beam roof.
Listing NGR: SE2371237912
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438097
- 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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