Methodist Church
METHODIST CHURCH, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266755
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHURCH, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266755
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHURCH, FORE 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:
- METHODIST CHURCH, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Exeter (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 96596 88093
Details
The following building shall be added to the list
TOPSHAM FORE STREET SX 98 NE 8/1252 Methodist Church GV II
Wesleyan Methodist church. 1867-9 by J R N Haswell of North Shields. Dressed local grey limestone rubble with red sandstone and Bathstone dressings. Slate roof with stone coped gable ends and scalloped red clay ridge tiles. High Victorian Gothic style, early French Gothic. Plan: Nave, chancel, transepts, north and south porches at west end, round stair tower on south-west corner and vestry in the east angle of the south transept. Exterior: The gabled west front has 5 lancets on ground floor with hoodmoulds and plate-tracery rose window in moulded 2-centred arch with nook shafts in gable above; the impost on right continues as cornice of the round right-hand corner tower. The string course below the rose window also runs around the tower and there are lancets above it. The tower has a copper-clad conical roof with wrought iron finial. On the left hand corner a large buttress with set-offs and gabled north porch with moulded 2-centred arch doorway on front with plank doors and wrought iron hinges. The right-hand (south) porch is set back behind the tower on the south elevation. The south elevation, including the transept, has lancet windows and the transept has a round window in the gable. The apsidal east end of the chancel has lancets and on the south side the vestry has a lean-to roof from which rises the battered shaft of the stack. North elevation not investigated. Interior: Gallery at west end of nave on iron posts. The nave roof has tie-beam trusses with arch braces on stone corbels and king-posts; the transepts have common rafter roofs with ashlar pieces. Chancel has scissor-braced rafter roof with ashlar pieces. Moulded 2-centred chancel arch on marble colonnettes with capitals and corbels. Moulded 2-centred transept arches. All the main furnishings and fittings are intact including benches, pulpit with traceried panels, reading desk, choir stalls, iron and brass sanctuary rail, wooden altar table. Organ in recess on north side of chancel has painted pipes. Lancets in apex have trained glass of 1860s and 70s designed by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. Source: Information provided by C Brooks.
Listing NGR: SX9659688093
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420646
- 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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