Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and School
WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL AND SCHOOL, 21A, SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282592
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and School
- Statutory Address:
- WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL AND SCHOOL, 21A, SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282592
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and School
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL AND SCHOOL, 21A, SCHOOL 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:
- WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL AND SCHOOL, 21A, SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Up Holland
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 52411 05137
Details
UP HOLLAND
SD5205 SCHOOL LANE 783-1/7/74 (South side) 25/06/73 No.21A Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and School (former) (Formerly Listed as: SKELMERSDALE AND HOLLAND SCHOOL LANE, Upholland Village Wesleyan Methodist Church)
GV II
Wesleyan Methodist chapel and school, now apparently partly store and partly unoccupied. Dated 1849 at 1st floor; altered. Painted coursed sandstone rubble and some brick, felted stone slate roof. Rectangular plan parallel to street. 2 storeys and 3 windows; doorway at left end with board door, blocked overlight and the top half of a lintel which was probably formerly similar to those of the windows (see below); three 12-pane sashed windows on each floor, those at ground floor at a relatively high level and with raised sills and wedge lintels in flat-arched form with rusticated pseudo-voussoirs and raised keystones (and now boarded internally); 3 similar windows at 1st floor, with raised sills. Rectangular stone plaque at 1st floor inscribed "WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL & SCHOOL 1849". Stone gable copings. Rear: ground floor covered by C20 additions; 1st-floor windows blocked with stone. Forms group with Nos 29 & 31 to right (qv).
Listing NGR: SD5241105137
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389065
- 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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