Former Methodist New Connexion Chapel
FORMER METHODIST NEW CONNEXION CHAPEL, PEPPER STREET, CHESTER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376377
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Methodist New Connexion Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER METHODIST NEW CONNEXION CHAPEL, PEPPER STREET, CHESTER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376377
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Methodist New Connexion Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER METHODIST NEW CONNEXION CHAPEL, PEPPER STREET, CHESTER
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:
- FORMER METHODIST NEW CONNEXION CHAPEL, PEPPER STREET, CHESTER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 40670 66085
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 07/04/2014
SJ4066SE
595-1/4/333
CHESTER CITY (IM)
PEPPER STREET (South side),
Former Methodist New Connexion Chapel
(Formerly listed as Habitat Store (that part formerly Methodist New Connexion Chapel))
GV II
Chapel, then public hall, and later motor showroom. Part of shop at time of Listing 1834-5. By William Cole. For the Methodist New Connexion. Stucco with grey-green hipped slate roof. 4 Corinthian columns in antis between projecting wings, each having a round-arched window of 20 panes beneath the transom and a radial-bar fanlight above. Entablature with architrave, frieze and dentil cornice; pediment standing proud of panelled attic; hipped roof with ridge at right-angle to front.
INTERIOR: any internal features are covered.
HISTORICAL NOTE: in 1836 Joseph Hemingway considered this the most handsome chapel in Chester.
(Hemingway J: A Panorama of Chester: Chester: 1836-; Simpson F: Manuscripts: CR 119/26; Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-: 140).
Listing NGR: SJ4067066085
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470372
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hemingway, J, A Panorama of Chester, (1836)
Harris, B, Bartholomew City Guides in Chester, (1979), 140
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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