Friends Meeting House
FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, LOWER PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300999
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Friends Meeting House
- Statutory Address:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, LOWER PARK
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- Date:
- 2001-04-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/03261/14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300999
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Friends Meeting House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, LOWER PARK
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:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, LOWER PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wyre Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bewdley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 78862 75016
Details
SO 7875 SE BEWDLEY CP LOWER PARK (north side)
13/165 Friends' Meeting House
22.4.50
GV II
Non-conformist chapel. Probably 1691 with early C19 alterations and a late C20 extension. Brick with tile roof. Two roof bays aligned north-west/south- east, with C20 extension to north-west gable. North-east front: one storey with band above windows, three windows: small fixed casement to left, the other two are timber cross-windows with rectangular leaded quarries and cambered heads; roughly central a blocked opening, probably a former entrance; south-east gable: one storey with window lighting gallery in gable; dentilled brick cornice to gable, band above upper window and above ground floor which has a central entrance under cambered head with wooden architrave and door of four raised and fielded panels. Interior: gallery to south-east end with stick balusters to balustrade. Other fittings are plain and early C19.
Listing NGR: SO7886275017
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156810
- 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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