Wesleyan Chapel
WESLEYAN CHAPEL, THE LANING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383999
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wesleyan Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- WESLEYAN CHAPEL, THE LANING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383999
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wesleyan Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESLEYAN CHAPEL, THE LANING
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:
- WESLEYAN CHAPEL, THE LANING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dent
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 70339 87076
Details
DENT
SD7087 THE LANING, Dent Town
162-1/24/205 (South side (off))
14/06/84 Wesleyan Chapel
GV II
Wesleyan chapel, now United Reformed church. Dated 1834. Thin
watershot coursed rubble with large quoins, all white-washed;
graduated blue slate roof with 2 courses of stone slate at the
eaves. Rectangular single-cell building on east-west axis.
The south front has 2 round-headed 6-pane windows with
Y-tracery in the heads, and in the middle of the wall between
them a datestone lettered "WESLEYAN / 1834 / CHAPEL". The rear
has similar windows. The west gable wall has a tall
round-headed opening containing a square headed doorway with a
slab lintel and a round-headed window immediately above this,
with glazing bars and a stone slate drip-band.
INTERIOR: internal porch; pitch-pine dado and pulpit (benches
removed); moulded plaster cornice; ceiling with moulded
plaster roundel and 4 moulded plaster diamonds from which
globular electric lamps hang on chains.
Forms group with High Laning Farmhouse to the south (qv).
Listing NGR: SD7033987076
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484431
- 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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