Poole Methodist Chapel
POOLE METHODIST CHAPEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312761
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Poole Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- POOLE METHODIST CHAPEL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312761
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Poole Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- POOLE METHODIST CHAPEL
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:
- POOLE METHODIST CHAPEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Poole
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 63652 55842
Details
POOLE C.P. SJ 65 NW 1/81 Poole Methodist Chapel - - II
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, 1834 (stone tablet over door). Red brick in Flemish Bond with hipped slate roof. Single storey, 3 bays. Panelled door with bead and flush panels and upper section picked out in planted beads to form Gothic motif with "Y" tracery. Heavy moulded frame with overlight of seven radiating daggers, picked out in beads on a solid board infilling. Semi-circular bullnosed label surmounted by lamp fitting and elliptical tablet inscribed Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, with the date. Two-light Gothic timber windows with "Y" tracery and bullnosed brick label above. Eaves dentil course of bullnosed bricks. Lead hips. Interior: Pitch pine panelled reading desk flanked by three steps each side. Three central panels set forward and decorated with beads, one panel wide return and single flanking panels. Ovolo moulded plinth and ogee cornice. The stairs have turned balusters and newels. The three-panel reredos has a wide centre panel with semi-circular head and garlands separated from the narrower side panels by reeded muntins. The narrower panels also have garland decoration, flat tops with rose features and a beaded cornice. Rosewood communion table with twisted legs fronted by plain communion rail with two returns, square balusters and end posts. Rosewood treadle organ with panelled ends and reeded columns with round candlestick support discs. Plain board filled softwood benches. Elliptical wall cleats supporting cast iron strapwork backplates to the former light fittings at the front and rear of the chapel.
Listing NGR: SJ6365255842
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56992
- 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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