Coke Memorial Methodist Church
COKE MEMORIAL METHODIST CHURCH, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345928
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Coke Memorial Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- COKE MEMORIAL METHODIST CHURCH, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345928
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Coke Memorial Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- COKE MEMORIAL METHODIST CHURCH, NORTH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- COKE MEMORIAL METHODIST CHURCH, PALMER STREET
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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:
- COKE MEMORIAL METHODIST CHURCH, NORTH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- COKE MEMORIAL METHODIST CHURCH, PALMER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Petherton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 43170 17054
Details
SOUTH PETHERTON CP PALMER STREET (North side) ST4317 6/139 Coke Memorial Methodist Church
GV II
Methodist Church. 1881. Ham stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof of grey banded with purple, ornamental terra-cotta ridges; south gable has moulded coping and gabletted finial. Six bays x one bay, each bay having its own plain gable; with south-east corner turret and spirelet, and north crosswing. North street elevation of 6 bays plus 2 bays of crosswing. Plinth; bay 1 has shouldered-arched doorway with pointed-arched recess having traceried circular window over, flanked by half-height buttresses; remaining 5 bays have almost full-height buttresses and coupled pairs of cusped lancets with transomes; crosswing has similar but simpler doorway in south return, the gable having end and centre buttresses with 3-light mullioned and transomed windows, and louvred vents to roof. South elevation, a gable front, has large C14 style 4-light subarcuated-with-wheel tranceried window, and projecting side wings have pairs of cusped lancets; to gable crown a triple-louvred vent, below which is a band course with 'Coke Memorial Chapel' inscribed thereon; the slim turret becomes octagonal at eaves level with shallow pilaster to principal faces, and at crown are slim lancet openings on angled faces under simple spirelet. Other elevations to match. Interior not seen. This church replaced an 1809 chapel on the site, Methodism having come to the parish in 1753.(VCH, Vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4316217067
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264224
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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