Methodist Church
METHODIST CHURCH, PORTLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298647
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHURCH, PORTLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298647
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHURCH, PORTLAND 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.
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, PORTLAND ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 28322 05280
Details
HOVE
TQ20NE PORTLAND ROAD 579-1/3/98 (North side) Methodist Church with walls piers, stairway, lamps and gates
II
Methodist church. 1895. Architect John Wills. Red brick, stone dressings, coped verges, concrete tile roof, bell turret to roof ridge. Plan: rectangular 5-bay block with internal galleries on three sides accessible via stair turrets on (liturgical) south-west and north-west corners, internal porch, double entrance approached by double stair, basement below. Buttressed west gable end flanked by buttressed tourelles, large rose window resting on 6 lancets set on moulded string, gabled double porch, 2 double doors with very ornate hinges, 2-light windows to gable stair turrets; north and south fronts symmetrical with 3 tiers of 2-light windows between full-height buttresses. Stairway on west front: double stair with gatepiers, gates and walls returned to south-west and north-west corners of church. Double stair with moulded ashlar coping and recessed panels in retaining wall fronting street; simple cast-iron handrail, cast-iron gates between square piers with moulded pyramid ashlar caps embellished with trefoil decoration, 2 with ornate electric lamp standards. Interior: wooden gallery carried on cast-iron columns with foliate capitals, wooden balcony. Ceiled and boarded hammerbeam roof. Good collection of original fittings including reader's desk and organ bay at east end. Rather opulent interior for a Methodist church, reflecting the affluence and vitality of the congregation at the turn of the century.
Listing NGR: TQ2832205280
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365603
- 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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