Tudhoe Methodist Church
TUDHOE METHODIST CHURCH, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322853
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Tudhoe Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- TUDHOE METHODIST CHURCH, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322853
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Tudhoe Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- TUDHOE METHODIST CHURCH, FRONT 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:
- TUDHOE METHODIST CHURCH, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Spennymoor
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 26634 35588
Details
NZ 23 NE SPENNYMOOR FRONT STREET
(East side)
Tudhoe Colliery
2/47 Tudhoe Methodist
Church
II
Primitive Methodist chapel, now Methodist chapel, with rear schoolroom. 1870
by the miners of Tudhoe Colliery. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar
dressings, plinth and quoins; rear and part of left return rubble. Welsh
slate roof with stone gable copings. Italianate style. One storey, 3 bays.
Central gabled porch contains 4-panel door and plain fanlight in raised stone
surround, with dripmould on impost blocks of round head. Eroded flat-oval
panel above door. Gable coping, stepped at mid-slope, rests on small curved
kneelers. Flanking paired sash windows are in similar style. Right return
to lane has 2 round-headed windows, and round window in gable peak, with plain
stone surrounds. Wide roof has small ridge ventilator; ball finials on gable
copings, the left with mid-slope steps, on small curved kneelers. Rear one-
storey extension.
Interior: painted plaster with painted ashlar dressings and boarded dado;
boarded panelled ceiling with cast iron ventilators. Tiered panelled pews
with Gothic-style shaped ends; similar quadrant choir pews at west end flank
semicircular organ wall, with 3 two-centred arches, under flower-stopped
dripmoulds, framing groups of pipes and console. Panelled balustrade with
central pulpit projection; side steps have ramped moulded handrail, on tapered
fluted newels, continuous with balustrade; semicircular communion rail on
twist-and-scroll cast-iron balusters. Brass first World War memorial plaque
on south wall beside 6-panel door to Sunday School room.
Included for historic interest.
Listing NGR: NZ2663435588
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 17 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112253
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 17 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/10330
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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