Methodist Church Hall
METHODIST CHURCH HALL, LEYLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379602
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church Hall
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHURCH HALL, LEYLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379602
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Church Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHURCH HALL, LEYLAND ROAD
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:
- METHODIST CHURCH HALL, LEYLAND ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 34891 17634
Details
SOUTHPORT
SD31NW LEYLAND ROAD
664-1/1/53 (East side)
Methodist Church Hall
GV II
Methodist Sunday School and caretaker's house, now church
hall. c1891; altered, with some C20 additions. Coursed
sandstone rubble, slate roofs. Gothic style. Modified L-plan,
consisting of large hall on east-west axis with south wing at
east end and apsidal west wing to the centre of this.
EXTERIOR: the gabled west front of the hall is a
boldly-modelled asymmetrical composition with the roof to the
right carried down to meet a set-back integral porch which has
a lateral apse. The principal portion has massive buttresses
(carried up to pinnacles with saddleback coping) framing a
large 2-centred arched window which has a chamfered surround
and is divided vertically by 2 moulded mullions treated as
shafts and horizontally by a weathered sill, the lower part
having windows of 2:3:2 lights with intersecting cusped
tracery and the upper part having 1:2:1 tall lancet lights.
To the right the porch has a slightly-projected gabled doorway
chamfered in 2 orders, and projected from its south side is a
5-sided apse with weathered plinth, weathered sill, short
2-centred arched windows with quatrefoils in the heads, a
parapet and hipped roof.
The south side wall is now mostly covered by a C20 flat-roofed
extension.
South wing with a semicircular apse with a conical roof and
continuous arcaded lancet fenestration in which alternate
lights are blind.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms group with associated Leyland Road Methodist Church to
south (qv).
Listing NGR: SD3489117634
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478989
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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