Methodist Chapel
METHODIST CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320224
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHAPEL, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-04-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/06471/18
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320224
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHAPEL, HIGH 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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hanslope
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 80303 46880
Details
SP 84 NW HANSLOPE HIGH STREET (south west side)
4/10001 Methodist Chapel
GV II
Weslyan chapel and school room. Dated 1828; schoolroom added in later C19 and with C20 extension. Flemish bond red brick. Welsh slate gable-ended roof with brick dentil eaves. PLAN: single cell with entrance under gallery at the liturgical west (north-east) end and schoolroom added in the late C19 at east (south-west) end, and C20 outshut added to end of schoolroom. EXTERIOR: one storey. Symmetrical north-east end with pedimental gable with brick dentils, plaque in tympanum inscribed ¨Weslyan Chapel 1828" and 2 large round-headed windows with glazing bars and margin panes; central round-headed doorway with semicircular fanlight with radiating and concentric glazing bars and 8-panel double doors. On side elevations three 12-pane sash windows with margin panes. Similar windows in later C19 schoolroom to south-west. C20 brick outshut with concrete tile lean-to roof. INTERIOR: simple interior with coved ceiling. Gallery at west (north-east) end with panelled front supported on thin columns. Panelled dado at east (south-west) end and moulded - round-headed niche in south-west wall. Late C19 rostrum and rail. HISTORY: the original Weslyan chapel is said to have been converted from a shop on this site by a Mr. Panter, inkeeper of The Cock, No.22 High Street (qv) and re-built in 1828.
Listing NGR: SP8030346880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 351181
- 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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