Tottington Methodist Church
Tottington Methodist Church, Market Street, Tottington, Bury, BL8 3LJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351974
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Tottington Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- Tottington Methodist Church, Market Street, Tottington, Bury, BL8 3LJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1351974
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Tottington Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- Tottington Methodist Church, Market Street, Tottington, Bury, BL8 3LJ
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:
- Tottington Methodist Church, Market Street, Tottington, Bury, BL8 3LJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bury (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD7753613071
Details
This list entry is subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/06/2018
SD 71 SE
326/5/10045
MARKET STREET
Tottington Methodist Church
(Formerly listed as Methodist Church, SPRING STREET)
II
Methodist church. 1905. By Arthur Brocklebank of Waterfoot. Coursed gritstone in diminishing courses, ashlar dressings; small slates to pitched roof, terracotta ridge cresting with two wood and lead ventilators, gable copings.
Five bay nave; main south entrance flanked by three stage attached bays with hipped roofs; two bay chancel flanked by bays roofed at right-angles. Gothic and Art Nouveau style; aligned north-south; the ground slopes down to the south so that the south entrance is above the street level and basement rooms are entered at the south east corner through boarded double doors with ivy-decorated strap hinges.
The south front: board double doors set in ashlar surround with flanking stepped buttresses; three-light window above with decorated tracery. Stepped buttresses at nave corners, terminating in octagonal shafts with tapering finials. Paired lancet-style windows to nave; three-light perpendicular-style north chancel window; narrow north doorway flanked by ornate railings with scrolled panels.
Interior: slim hammer-beam style roof trusses with steel tie rods to nave; moulded chancel arch, corbels support three shallow-arched roof trusses to chancel. Contemporary fittings include: glazed double doors and side screens; brass door furniture; raked pews with doors and umbrella stands; south gallery. Panelled pulpit and organ case, octagonal white marble font in memory of Jack and Chris Hargreaves, November 1905. Memorial window to Richard Yates in vestibule, funded by his employees at Spring Mill; patterned stained glass in side windows and east widow in memory of William Hoyle, Temperance Statistician, 1905. Chancel has mosaic floor, panelled dado with war memorial, carved panelled choir stalls. The pulpit, choir stalls and reredos were the gift of Mr and Mrs W Greenhalgh of Southport in memory of their three children.
On the east wall a tablet with two angels holding scrolls commemorates those who fell in the first World War; also a tiled plaque with figure of St George listing those who fought in the second.
Listing NGR: SD7753613071
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471810
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/43830
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/43831
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/165030
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/165034
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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