Methodist Church
METHODIST CHURCH, KENTS BANK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269670
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHURCH, KENTS BANK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1269670
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHURCH, KENTS BANK ROAD
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, KENTS BANK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grange-Over-Sands
- National Grid Reference:
- SD4058677807
Details
SD4077
705-1/4/16
GRANGE-OVER-SANDS
KENTS BANK ROAD
(West side)
Methodist Church
II
Methodist church. 1874 by Ernest Bates, with later C19
additions. Snecked limestone rubble with sandstone ashlar
dressings and slate roofs.
STYLE: C13/14 Gothic.
PLAN: the orientation is reversed, with the pews facing
towards a sanctuary at the west end. Comprises a 4-bay nave,
an east porch under a lean-to roof (with doors to the north
and south), a chancel-like projection at the west end which
originally contained an organ chamber above a vestry, an added
vestry projecting northwards from the western bay of the nave,
and school rooms projecting towards the south. The latter were
also extended later in the C19.
EXTERIOR: the nave windows, which are separated by buttresses,
are each of 3 trefoiled lights and have plate tracery of a
trefoil and 2 quatrefoils. The east gable is coped with a
cross finial and the porch is lit by mullioned windows of
2-3-2 lights. A foundation stone below is inscribed: 'This
stone was laid by Mrs Alexander Brogden Sept 11th 1874. Ernest
Bates, Architect, Manchester.' The east window of the nave is
of 6 lights with Geometrical tracery. The east wall of the
school room has a window of 3 trefoiled lancet lights rising
into a gable, with 2-light windows to left and right. At the
left there is a porch with a hipped roof.
INTERIOR: the internal walls are plastered and the arch-braced
roof trusses have iron tie rods and have wall posts rising
from corbelled shafts with rough stone capitals: like the
external hood mould stops the intended carving was never
carried out. At the west end there is a pointed chamfered arch
divided horizontally by a blind arcade. Below, a wall contains
2 doorways to the former vestry. Above are the front pipes of
the organ, now no longer functional. The pulpit and sanctuary
railings are in oak in a Gothic style and are C20
replacements.
Listing NGR: SD4058677807
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460519
- 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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