Methodist Chapel, Area Wall and Central Gate

METHODIST CHAPEL, AREA WALL AND CENTRAL GATE, A595

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312491
Date first listed:
09-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:
Methodist Chapel, Area Wall and Central Gate
Statutory Address:
METHODIST CHAPEL, AREA WALL AND CENTRAL GATE, A595
Methodist Chapel, Area Wall and Central Gate, Distington
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Date:
2002-05-18
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312491
Date first listed:
09-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:
Methodist Chapel, Area Wall and Central Gate
Statutory Address 1:
METHODIST CHAPEL, AREA WALL AND CENTRAL GATE, A595

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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Location

Statutory Address:
METHODIST CHAPEL, AREA WALL AND CENTRAL GATE, A595

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

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Distington
National Grid Reference:
NY0047122655

Details

NY 02 SW DISTINGTON A595 (East side)
Common End,
Distington

2/18 Methodist Chapel,
area wall & central
gate

II


Methodist Chapel, disused at time of survey (January 1984). Stone tablet over
door inscribed and dated, with text, PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL ERECTED AD
MDCCCXXXVIII. Snecked rubble. Graduated slate roof. Single tall storey, 3
bays; set back from adjoining houses. Symmetrical, with double panelled doors
and boarded semicircular fanlight in stone surround; single semicircular headed
window to either side, boarded over, in stone surround. Surrounds have
projecting imposts and keystone. Area wall snecked rubble with semicircular
copings, c6 ft high. Central gate has cast-iron spearhead standards.


Listing NGR: NY0047122655

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
76114
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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