Methodist Church Including Front Steps and Railings
METHODIST CHURCH INCLUDING FRONT STEPS AND RAILINGS, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292430
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church Including Front Steps and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHURCH INCLUDING FRONT STEPS AND RAILINGS, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292430
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church Including Front Steps and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHURCH INCLUDING FRONT STEPS AND RAILINGS, 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 INCLUDING FRONT STEPS AND RAILINGS, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brixham
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 92423 56019
Details
BRIXHAM
SX9256SW FORE STREET, Lower Brixham 1946-1/10/151 (South East side) 18/10/49 Methodist Church including front steps and railings (Formerly Listed as: FORE STREET (South side) Methodist Chapel)
GV II
Methodist chapel. 1816, altered 1871 and 1981. Latter by WG Couldrey, Son & Partners, Paignton. Solid rendered walls; some stone rubble exposed in side walls. Hipped slated roof. A simple oblong plan with entrance lobby and gallery staircases on the south; rostrum (rebuilt 1981) on north; galleries on the other 3 sides. Classical style. 2 storeys raised on a high basement. 5-bay front, 5 windows wide. Round-headed central doorway has panelled double-doors incised with key-pattern; panelled reveals; elaborated cobweb fanlight. In front of it a deep Doric porch with eccentric capitals, the front columns probably of iron; flat modillioned hood with foliated boss on soffit. The porch stands on a raised terrace approached by stone steps to left and right. At foot of each flight of steps is a pair of square gate piers with stepped pyramidal caps; simple iron gates, almost certainly later replacements. Between the gates and across the whole front of the terrace is the original iron railing with fluted uprights and standards having spear-head finials. The front is arranged in 5 bays flanked and separated by pilaster strips; raised band above each storey, breaking forward over the strips; upper band surmounted by a parapet. Windows round-arched with 3 large panes in centre and 6 margin-panes at either side; radial bars in the head. The 2 windows flanking the doorway have a slightly different glazing pattern, probably because they were originally doorways: 8 small panes in the centre with 8 margin-panes at either side, radial bars in the head with a dentil-course beneath them. Round-arched windows in both side walls and in both storeys, those in lower tier foreshortened. Glazing similar to front, but with smaller middle panes; some old glass. INTERIOR considerably altered in late C19 (new seating and gallery fronts) and 1981 (entrance lobby and rostrum remodelled). The iron columns supporting the gallery, which curves at the north end, appear to be original; late C19 panelled gallery fronts with diagonal planking, the rail above carried on scrolled iron uprights. Fixed to the north gallery front is a large round clock inscribed MINCHINTON. BRIXHAM. Panelled dado, probably original, in ground storey. Panelled ceiling. Organ, now in north gallery, is shown behind rostrum in 1933 photo kept in the church; it seems to have been newly installed at that date. (The Buildings of England: Cherry B: Devon (2nd ed): 1989-: 831).
Listing NGR: SX9242356019
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383618
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 831
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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