The Kirk Mission Hall, Gatepiers and Attached Boundary Wall
THE KIRK MISSION HALL, GATEPIERS AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263964
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Kirk Mission Hall, Gatepiers and Attached Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- THE KIRK MISSION HALL, GATEPIERS AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263964
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Kirk Mission Hall, Gatepiers and Attached Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE KIRK MISSION HALL, GATEPIERS AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, HIGH 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 KIRK MISSION HALL, GATEPIERS AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitehaven
- National Grid Reference:
- NX 97725 18374
Details
The following building shall be added:-
WHITEHAVEN HIGH STREET NX 9718 SE (north east side) 637-/5/10000 The Kirk Mission Hall, Gatepiers and attached Boundary Wall GV II Non conformist church, now redundant. Mid C18, with C19 and C20 alterations. Rubble sandstone, brought to courses, with ashlar dressings, and roughcast rendered in part, or wholly in all elevations. Welsh-slated roof, with stone copings to south-west gable. South-west elevation; two storeys, four bays, the two centre bays unfloored, the south east bay with the kirk gallery. Tall semi- circular arch headed window openings to centre bays, with unmoulded imposts and keyblocks, and projecting cills. North-east bay with ground-floor doorway and rectangular overlight, below a rectangular first-floor window opening. All openings are set within plain ashlar surrounds, and are blocked by temporary shuttering. Window frames, visible from interior were apparently sashes with margin glazing. South-east end bay with stacked rectangular windows. South-west gable with double doorways to each side, with 3 panels to each door. Rectangular gallery window to gable apex, now blocked, with flat- topped bellcote above, with single pointed arch-headed bell opening. Interior much altered, but with vestibule wall, single doorways to meeting room, and gallery with two tapered octagonal column supports. Gallery front with cornice and top rail above field rectangular panels, and frieze with alternate Greek Key and triglyph decoration below a lower cornice. Glazed moveable screen made up of 6-pane lights set above. Some late C20 temporary partitioning below. North- west end with C19 partitioning, and a tiered platform with two parallel flights of steps flanking a winged reading desk, with rectangular fielded panels except those to the three facets of the pulpit with curved heads to the upper panels. C18 rectangular panelling to right-hand side and to rear wall of tiered platform. Painted band to wall head with inscription in Lombardic script. The Kirk was originally the church of Whitehaven's Scots Presbyterians before becoming a methodist house in the late C19. The building is identified as 'High Meeting' in J. Howards survey of Whitehaven of 1790. Plain gatepiers, square on plan, with oversailing caps, and rubble stone boundary wall, with saddleback coping, which encloses burial ground to south east of Kirk.
Listing NGR: NX9772518374
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429161
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Howard, J, Survey of Whitehaven, (1790)
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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