Brown Knowl Methodist Church and Attached Sunday School
BROWN KNOWL METHODIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL, SHERRINGTON'S LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278774
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Brown Knowl Methodist Church and Attached Sunday School
- Statutory Address:
- BROWN KNOWL METHODIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL, SHERRINGTON'S LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278774
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Brown Knowl Methodist Church and Attached Sunday School
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROWN KNOWL METHODIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL, SHERRINGTON'S LANE
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:
- BROWN KNOWL METHODIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL, SHERRINGTON'S LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Broxton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 49542 53556
Details
SJ 45 SE BROXTON C.P. SHERRINGTON'S LANE (West Side)
8/29 Brown Knowl Methodist Church and attached Sunday School
GV II
Methodist Church, 1913, of stone-dressed red-brown brick with pebble dashed gables and graded grey slate roofs. The Church and Sunday School form an L, with tower and vestry in its angle. In Perpendicular manner. The Church has a 5-light (ritual) west window facing road - 3 lights under a square head flanked each side by a lower pointed-arched light. The schoolroom (left) has a 6-light window in end gable, in a camber-arched recess with ogee hoodmould. Three 3-light trefoil-headed windows are in (ritual) south side of Church. The crenellated tower has traceried pebbledash panels in place of bell-openings. Double doors of oak. Mid C20 flat-roofed extension at rear. Interior: The church of 4 bays has arch-braced trusses and contemporary furnishings. Church, schoolroom and vestry are designed to communicate (for joint use) through pointed archways with folding doors. The church was built as a Primitive Methodist Chapel, near the site of one (demolished) erected in 1836, of which the datestone is in the rear gable of the present building. The site is associated with, and the burial place of, John Wedgwood (tomb q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ4954253556
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404748
- 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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