Wesley Church and Attached Library
WESLEY CHURCH AND ATTACHED LIBRARY, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265284
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wesley Church and Attached Library
- Statutory Address:
- WESLEY CHURCH AND ATTACHED LIBRARY, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265284
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wesley Church and Attached Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESLEY CHURCH AND ATTACHED LIBRARY, KING 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:
- WESLEY CHURCH AND ATTACHED LIBRARY, KING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Cambridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 45425 58694
Details
KING STREET 1. 942 (south side) Wesley Church and TL 4558 NE attached Library 4/716A II GV 2. Church. 1913 by Gordon and Gunton of Cambridge in the Perpendicular Revival Style. Ashlar with slate roofs. Moulded coped gables with kneelers and Grass finials. Moulded plinth. Nave with aisles and porches, transepts and chancel. North front has central doorway within projecting gabled porch with diagonal buttresses. Eitherside are four light mullion windows. Above,3, three light triangular headed windows in deeply moulded surrounds with very unusual tracery. Above again a crenellated parapet. Flanking this front are the sides of the porches, each with a pair of two light mullion windows and a crenellated parapet. West front has a projecting gabled porch to the north with an elaborate arch and a four light mullioned window above, plus fine octagonal corner turrets. 4 shallow pointed arched windows to the west aisle, each with 5 pointed lights. The clerestory has 5 pairs of two light panel tracery windows. The transepts have a single large rose window each, with very elaborate and unusual tracery. The east side is identical to the west. INTERIOR: Inside walls are faced with red brick, with ashlar dressings. 3 bay nave plus wider single bay transept arch. All moulded shallow pointed arches which die into the moulded piers and responds. Similar shallow pointed chancel arch. Elaborate Perpendicular Style wooden roof. Fine stone pulpit, lecturn and font. West gallery. Contemporary wooden pews,choir stalls, altar rail and altar. Attached to south is a single storey grey brick library with 3 canted bay windows.
Listing NGR: TL4542558694
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47912
- 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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