Methodist Chapel and Sunday School
METHODIST CHAPEL, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308675
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Chapel and Sunday School
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHAPEL, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308675
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Chapel and Sunday School
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHAPEL, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- SUNDAY SCHOOL, WEST 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 CHAPEL, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- SUNDAY SCHOOL, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- East Lindsey (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alford
- National Grid Reference:
- TF4530575997
Details
TF 4476-4576 and TF 4475-4575
5/46 and 6/46
14-11-85
ALFORD
WEST STREET
(north west side)
Methodist Chapel and Sunday School
G.V.
II
Methodist Chapel and Sunday School. 1864, by W. Botterill of
Hull. Yellow Farlesthorpe brick with ashlar dressings, banded
blue and green slate roofs. The Sunday School is linked to the
Chapel at the rear. The main front has stepped corner buttresses
with tall pinnacles, and an elaborate corbelled out octagonal
pinnacle to the gable with angle shafts having foliate capitals.
There are 3 shouldered doorways set in deeply moulded pointed
arches with angle shafts having floriate capitals, over the
central door a glazed octofoil and over the flanking doorways are
simple blank trefoils, all set under crocketed gablettes. Above
is a central 4 light window with geometric tracery, flanked by
single similar 2 light windows with hood moulds and floriate
label stops. The side fronts have 5 identical bays, subdivided
tall stepped buttresses with crockets, consisting of a triangular
headed lower 3 light window and a pointed upper 3 light window,
both with a geometric form of tracery. At the rear is a lower
single bay unit with dentillated frieze and 2 light windows
linked to the Sunday School which is a separately gabled
building, having a central 2 light window with floriate dividing
mullion, flanked by single tall and thin glazing bar sashes, all
with flat ashlar heads. Interior. A U shaped gallery is
supported on cast iron columns with floriate capitals and
decorative spandrel brackets. Across the gallery is a glazed
internal roof. Contemporary pews and fittings.
Listing NGR: TF4530575997
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 195569
- 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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