Former Methodist Chapel and sunday school with attached walls and railings
The Old Chapel House with attached walls and railings, Shrewsbury Street, Glossop, SK13 7BX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384295
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Former Methodist Chapel and sunday school with attached walls and railings
- Statutory Address:
- The Old Chapel House with attached walls and railings, Shrewsbury Street, Glossop, SK13 7BX
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- Date:
- 2001-10-23
- Reference:
- IOE01/04784/28
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384295
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Former Methodist Chapel and sunday school with attached walls and railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Old Chapel House with attached walls and railings, Shrewsbury Street, Glossop, SK13 7BX
- Statutory Address 2:
- The Old School House with attached walls and railings, Shrewsbury Street, Glossop, SK13 7BF
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:
- The Old Chapel House with attached walls and railings, Shrewsbury Street, Glossop, SK13 7BX
- Statutory Address:
- The Old School House with attached walls and railings, Shrewsbury Street, Glossop, SK13 7BF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- High Peak (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 03076 94193
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 August 2022 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SK0394
921-1/10/29
GLOSSOP
SHREWSBURY STREET (West side)
The Old Chapel House and The Old School House
(Formerly listed as Glossop Joinery with attached walls and railings, previously listed as: SHREWSBURY STREET (West side) Premises occupied by Glossop Joinery Manufacturer)
27/01/78
II
Formerly known as: Methodist Chapel and Sunday School SHREWSBURY STREET.
Methodist chapel and adjoining sunday school, now industrial and commercial premises. 1855 converted C20. Ashlar with ashlar dressings to front elevation, coursed millstone grit to others. Welsh slate roofs.
PLAN: rectangular.
EXTERIOR: two storeys. Front of former church has ashlar three window facade topped with coped pediment with quatrefoil to apex. The centre bay slightly projecting below cornice level. Central round headed doorway in moulded ashlar surround with C20 glazed doors, flanked by single C20 bow windows. Above central Venetian window flanked by single round headed windows with recessed aprons, now boarded.
Right return has watershot masonry in diminishing courses and five windows. Console shaped corbels to eaves. Five 30-pane windows with above five 15-pane windows with recessed aprons. Former Sunday School set at right angles with gable front to road has symmetrical three window front with quatrefoil in gable. Central round headed doorway with double doors and Gothick fanlight, above large Venetian window with Gothick glazing, and sill on carved consoles. Either side single tall round headed windows with Gothick glazing. Small round headed doorway to left with subdivided fanlight.
Attached cast-iron railings to front boundary with central gate and fleur-de-lys finials.
Right return has five plain buttresses, to left inserted C20 window and to right large inserted entrance.
Rear elevation has louvred opening to apex of gable. Two central windows, flanked by two doorways, the outer ones taller. Above large Venetian window with Gothick glazing.
INTERIOR: church has wooden gallery to three sides, supported on cast-iron pillars. Moulded plaster cornices and elaborate ceiling roses. Sunday school has wall stencil "Sabbath Schools are England's Glory".
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to right corner boundary wall with ashlar coping and square gate piers with moulded pyramidal caps and cast-iron gates with fleur-de-lys finials.
Listing NGR: SK0307694193
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484729
- 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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