Methodist Church
METHODIST CHURCH, BELLE VUE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299201
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHURCH, BELLE VUE ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-10-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/08889/26
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299201
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHURCH, BELLE VUE 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, BELLE VUE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cinderford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 65827 13980
Details
SO 61 SE CINDERFORD BELLE VUE ROAD (east side) 10/24 Methodist Church
II
Methodist Church, 1849 (datestone): front ashlar, sides squared coursed masonry with ashlar dressings, slate roof. Large hall. Gable to road, plain plinth, small octagonal corner turrets rising to pinnacles above eaves level, one with foliate top surviving. Between a large, single gable with copings, and a duplicate moulding below following slope; foliate cross to ridge. The central porch has small corner buttresses, a gable with cross gablets to foot of coping; pointed moulded doorway with three nook shafts each side, and date plaque over. 3-light lower windows each side, 5-light above, all with Decorated tracery, sides have 2- light windows between buttresses, with ballflower carving in projecting eaves. Window in back wall reset in 1905 in church hall adjoining. Internally a lobby beneath a west gallery, supported on cast iron pillars. False hammer-beam roof trusses with pendentives. Small piece of glass over porch shows C. Wesley, apparently dates from 1849: rest of coloured glass later. Built as Wesley Methodist Chapel, later closed, reopened 1881 after renovation. Church hall and Sunday School not included. (Centenary Pamphlet, 1981).
Listing NGR: SO6582713980
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 354093
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Cinderford Methodist Church Centenary Pamphlet, (1981)
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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