Thorner Methodist Church and Attached Sunday School
THORNER METHODIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL, CARR LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265240
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Thorner Methodist Church and Attached Sunday School
- Statutory Address:
- THORNER METHODIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL, CARR LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265240
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Thorner Methodist Church and Attached Sunday School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNER METHODIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL, CARR LANE
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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:
- THORNER METHODIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL, CARR LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorner
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 37524 40427
Details
THORNER CARR LANE SE3740 LS14 (south side) 16/172 24.5.84 Thorner Methodist Church and attached Sunday School
II
Methodist church and attached Sunday School, redundant. 1876-78 by C. E. Danby (Leeds). Hammer-dressed stone, rock-faced stone, ashlar dressings, Welsh blue- slate roof. Gothic Revival Style. North-west tower, south-west staircase projection, organ housing, attached Sunday School to east end. West end: gabled doorway on colonnettes with stiff leaf capitals flanked by pairs of trefoil-headed lights. Band of guilloche ornament beneath a stepped group of 3 windows with Geometrical tracery under a hoodmould. Sunk quatrefoil in gable. Tower, square at base rising to broached polygonal belfry with spire,has doorway in base with a pair of trefoil-headed lights above. Angle buttresses surmounted by squat pinnacles at junction with broached-polygon, each face with arched belfry window with diminutive colonnettes with gargoyles at junction with polygonal spire. Stair-projection, to right, has matching doorway to that in tower and single trefoiled light above, canted-end with hipped roof. Buttress between nave rises to short spirelet. Nave: 5 bays with rock-faced plinth, 2-light trefoil-headed windows with quatrefoil in apex of arch articulated by offset buttresses. Coped gables. Lower organ housing with gable stack and north doorway to school at right-angles, approached up a flight of 13 stone steps. School: rock-faced basement with to east end, 6 bays of 2-light trefoil-headed windows. Coped gables with stack to left. North gable has large 3-light window flanked by single narrow lights with trefoil heads.
Interior: pointed-arched organ recess on bracketed shafts has, above organ pipes, rose-window with 5 quatrefoils (this window is not easily visible from outside). Symmetrical arrangement of altar rail, semi-octagonal pulpit with double flight of stairs and organ-gallery with trefoil ornamentation. West gallery. Bow pews. Hammer-beam roof.
Listing NGR: SE3752440427
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425470
- 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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