Old Wesleyan Chapel

OLD WESLEYAN CHAPEL, NORTH TANFIELD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1293821
Date first listed:
30-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
Old Wesleyan Chapel
Statutory Address:
OLD WESLEYAN CHAPEL, NORTH TANFIELD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1293821
Date first listed:
30-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
Old Wesleyan Chapel
Statutory Address 1:
OLD WESLEYAN CHAPEL, NORTH TANFIELD 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
OLD WESLEYAN CHAPEL, NORTH TANFIELD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
West Tanfield
National Grid Reference:
SE 26801 79048

Details

WEST TANFIELD NORTH TANFIELD ROAD SE 27 NE (east side) 8/68 Old Wesleyan Chapel

- II

Chapel, now meeting rooms. Early C19. Ashlar dressings, coursed squared stone, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Quoins. Central double 6-panel door and fanlight with radial glazing bars, in plain stone surround with impost bands, round-arched head and keystone. It is flanked by round-arched sash windows with glazing bars in plain stone surrounds with sills, impost bands and keystones. First floor: 16-pane sashes in plain stone surrounds with sills and lintels. Shaped kneelers, stone coping, end stack to left. Interior: panelled gallery supported by thin cast-iron Doric columns.

Listing NGR: SE2680179048

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Legacy System number:
332698
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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