HOGHTON METHODIST CHAPEL

HOGHTON METHODIST CHAPEL, CHAPEL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376532
Date first listed:: 21-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: HOGHTON METHODIST CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: HOGHTON METHODIST CHAPEL, CHAPEL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376532
Date first listed:: 21-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: HOGHTON METHODIST CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: HOGHTON METHODIST CHAPEL, CHAPEL LANE

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

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HOGHTON METHODIST CHAPEL, CHAPEL LANE

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County:: Lancashire
District:: Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:: Hoghton
National Grid Reference:: SD 62137 26862

Details

SD 62 NW HOGHTON CHAPEL LANE

1837/2/10006 Hoghton Methodist Chapel

II

Non-conformist chapel, attached boundary wall, gatepiers and gates. Dated 1794, with early C19 extensions and alterations, further altered 1887-8. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, coped east gable and a Welsh-slated roof covering. L-plan formed by addition to rear of frontage range FRONT (south) ELEVATION: 2 storeys, 5 bays with off-centre doorway with chamfered surround and semi-circular arched head and blind tympanum enscribed WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL ERECTED 1794.' Asymmetrically divided double doors, one of 6 panels , the other of 3. Flanking the doorway are tall window with stone surrounds, glazing bars and margin lights. A third window of matching appearance to the left-hand end bay. Above, 5 evenly- spaced 2 light windows, that to the centre with a stone mullion. REAR ELEVATION has 2 storey, 2 bay addition to west part of chapel, built of rubble stone, some walls now rendered. INTERIOR: early gallery to east wall with panelled front, and supported on 2 turned timber columns. North wall altered to permit extension, and erection of singers' gallery supported by a single stone column. This gallery retains early C19 box pews. Main body of chapel with late C19 pews with dwarf doors. Semi-octagonal late C18 pulpit, brought from a chapel in Blackburn, at west end. Attached boundary wall, approx 1 metre high, with ridged stone copings, rounded stone gate piers, and ornamental railed gates facing the chapel entrance. HISTORY: The chapel was originally built in 1794, but was extended and remodelled in the early C19, when the galleries were added. The extension eastwards replicated the original detailing of the facade and incorporated elements of the original building.

Listing NGR: SD6213726862

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Legacy System number:: 470534
Legacy System:: LBS

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