WESLEYAN CHAPEL

WESLEYAN CHAPEL, THE CRESCENT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331609
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:: WESLEYAN CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: WESLEYAN CHAPEL, THE CRESCENT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331609
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:: WESLEYAN CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: WESLEYAN CHAPEL, THE CRESCENT

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: WESLEYAN CHAPEL, THE CRESCENT

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Fenland (District Authority)
Parish:: Wisbech
National Grid Reference:: TF 46160 09538

Details

The following previous listing date shall be added.

Page 17 Item number 6/32 10.2.69

------------------------------------ WISBECH THE CRESCENT TF 4609 6/32 Wesleyan Chapel GV II

Former chapel, built 1803 and enlarged in 1835, part of the planned circus of the Castle Estate built by Joseph Medworth (b.1752, d.1827). Dark red brick with rusticated stone quoins; rendered ground floor and plinth. Two storeys with gallery band. Brick pedimented parapet with stone copings and three, patterned iron finials. Central, three-light gallery window with gauged red brick, round headed arches divided by stone shafts, two flanking windows with similar arches all with margin glazing bars. Pair of matching entrances with stone cornices supported by console brackets; double, sunk-panelled doors. Two segmental headed ground floor windows with fixed lights. RCHM (C. Stell), Non-Conformist Chapels, p.25, 1976. Craddock and Walker, History of Wisbech, p.278, p.392-3, 1849. Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.267-8, 1898. Colvin, p.386, 1954. VCH Cambs, p.242. G. Annis, A History of Wisbech Castle, 1977. Watson, prints, History of Wisbech, 1827.

Listing NGR: TF4616009538

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Sources

Books and journals
Annis, G, A History of Wisbech Castle, (1977)
Colvin, H M , A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1600-1840, (1954), 386
Gardiner, F J, History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood, (1898), 267-8
Salzman, L F , The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 242
Walker, N, Craddock, T , The History of Wisbech and the Fens, (1849), 278
Walker, N, Craddock, T , The History of Wisbech and the Fens, (1849), 392-3
Watson, W, An Historical Account of the Ancient Town and Port of Wisbech, (1827)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.