Kingswood Meeting House and Sunday School
KINGSWOOD MEETING HOUSE AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, PACKHORSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271794
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Kingswood Meeting House and Sunday School
- Statutory Address:
- KINGSWOOD MEETING HOUSE AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, PACKHORSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271794
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Kingswood Meeting House and Sunday School
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGSWOOD MEETING HOUSE AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, PACKHORSE LANE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- KINGSWOOD MEETING HOUSE AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, PACKHORSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Bromsgrove (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wythall
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 07778 77050
Details
WYTHALL
SP 07 NE
PACKHORSE LANE
(North west side)
1655/3/10016
Kingswood Meeting House and Sunday School
II
Meeting house, now a chapel and Sunday school. Built in 1793 as Presbyterian meeting house; remodelled c1860-74; Sunday school added later C19. Flemish bond and Flemish garden wall bond brick with stone and polychrome brick dressings. Slate roof with gable ends, front gable with stone coping. PLAN: Rectangular, almost square, plan auditorium of original meeting house, with entrances at south end. Remodelled and Gothicised c1860-74, when a small chancel was built at the north end, and a portico built on the south front incorporating a mausoleum and small gallery above. Later in the C19 a Sunday school was added at the north end, built at right-angles to the chancel. EXTERIOR: South front has wide rendered gable and brick string-courses. Small gabled central2-storey projection with 2-light plate tracery window on first floor, and mausoleum below with segmental dog-tooth arch opening on ground floor with moulded string-course above raised over roundel. Flanking porches with round arches forming an arcade; inner doorways with pilastered doorcases with panelled reveals and panelled double-doors; the central bay is a mausoleum containing a railed tomb; above the porches small plate-tracery rose windows. The east and west sides each have two large 2-light Gothic traceried windows. The chancel at the north end has triple and double lancet windows. The Sunday school attached at right-angles to north of chancel has large cast-iron frame windows with small panes. INTERIOR: Panelled dado and polygonal pulpit from earlier meeting house. Moulded chancel and organ chamber arches. Open moulded tie-beam roof structure with arch-braces and carved queen- and king-posts. Gothic balustrade and arch with trefoil pierced spandrels to small gallery at south end. Victorian furnishings include pews, Communion rail, organ and floor tiles. White marble wall monuments. Patterned stained glass. HISTORY: The first meeting house built c1708 and damaged in the Sacheverell riots of 1715, was entirely destroyed in the Birmingham riots of 1791 and replaced by this building in 1793. SOURCE: RCHME, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England; pp.259 and 260.
Listing NGR: SP0777877050
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473120
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986), 259, 260
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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