Ashbourne Methodist Church
Ashbourne Methodist Church, Church Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335181
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Ashbourne Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- Ashbourne Methodist Church, Church Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335181
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Ashbourne Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- Ashbourne Methodist Church, Church 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:
- Ashbourne Methodist Church, Church Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SK1785246569
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement to credit architect and reformat text to current standards on the 9 November 2021
SK 1746
822-0/1/10001
ASHBOURNE
CHURCH STREET
Ashbourne Methodist Church
GV
II
Methodist church. Dated 1880 by John Wills. Orange/red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings and terracotta ornament; Welsh slate roof. Two storeys with basement having symmetrical 1:3:1 bay facade with corner towers and 1:7 bay right return. Classical details. Chamfered plinth over basement windows; full entablatures above ground and first floors of facade have terracotta roundels on the friezes and modillioned cornices. Nosed steps to central entrance having panelled double doors and fanlight with roundel beneath archivolt with acanthus keystone; Corinthian half columns to each side. Bays two and four have narrow round-arched windows with apron panels and moulded sills on triglyph blocks all set in round-arched recesses with ashlar imposts. Corner Towers have corner pilasters with panels of terracotta roundels and similar windows to bays two and four but largely infilled by more terracotta.
First floor: Ionic half columns between round-arched windows of central recess; terracotta aprons, moulded sills and imposts, keystones. The Towers have Ionic pilasters which flank shouldered windows beneath dentilled cornices. Central pediment with dated triangular panel in tympanum. Corner Towers with terracotta-panelled parapets surmounted by balustrades which link corner dies with draped and finialled urns. Right return: bay one detailed as tower then seven bays of which the central five have segmentally-arched basement windows and round-arched windows lighting the church; piers between.
Interior: two aisles; pitch-pine pews; end gallery. Later organ in coved recess beneath basket arch on Corinthian columns; round-arched doorway to each side. Brackets on carved corbels support flat ceiling with coved edge; tie rods with scrollwork.
Opened March 15th 1881 as the 'New Wesleyan Chapel'.
Rear-right corner of building is linked to church rooms known as Central Hall, Station Road (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SK1785246569
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 79954
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hartwell, Clare, Pevsner, Nikolaus, Williamson, Elizabeth, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire, (2016)
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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