Methodist Chapel, Hall, Railings and Gatepiers Fronting Road
METHODIST CHAPEL, HALL, RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS FRONTING ROAD, VILLAGE CENTRE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326624
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Chapel, Hall, Railings and Gatepiers Fronting Road
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHAPEL, HALL, RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS FRONTING ROAD, VILLAGE CENTRE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326624
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Chapel, Hall, Railings and Gatepiers Fronting Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHAPEL, HALL, RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS FRONTING ROAD, VILLAGE CENTRE
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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, HALL, RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS FRONTING ROAD, VILLAGE CENTRE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- West Putford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 36153 15884
Details
SS 31 NE WEST PUTFORD CP VILLAGE CENTRE
3/66 Methodist Chapel, Hall, railings and gatepiers fronting road
II
Methodist chapel dated 1849; hall, and gatepiers added 1906, railings late C20. Chapel: random rubble, roughcast on facade, slate roof, plain bargeboards. Hall: coursed rubble, slate roof, decorative ridge tiles and bargeboards, brick stack gable, corrugated iron roofed lean-to on west gable end. L-plan: chapel lying east-west, hall in south-west corner, single storey porch in angle facing south onto road, railings returned from south-west corner of hall enclosing forecourt; site slopes away to west. Chapel: 2 full-height round-headed 6-pane windows with marginal glazing bars, lower part of right hand window blocked by flat-roofed single storey porch with segmental-headed double doors, hall wing with 4 x 5 sash window. West gable end of chapel with round headed 16-pane windows lighting gallery, round-headed date stone between inscribed Providence Chapel 1849; single storey lean-to below with fixed light 3 x 5 pane window. North side lit with similar windows as on south face, pivoted heads. Interior of chapel rendered, painted inscription at east end 'Glory to God in the Highest', ceiling rose. West end gallery, panelled with pilasters carried on cast iron piers, panelled dado, benches and late C19 reading desk. Hall featureless; the lean-to contains a kitchen. Gatepiers, square, cream brick and rubble with shallow pyramid caps, railings wrought iron with spearhead tops set in random rubble wall with bitumenised humpback coping.
Listing NGR: SS3615315884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91973
- 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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