Queens Hall Methodist Mission (Entrance Block Only)
QUEENS HALL METHODIST MISSION (ENTRANCE BLOCK ONLY), 44-50, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384491
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Queens Hall Methodist Mission (Entrance Block Only)
- Statutory Address:
- QUEENS HALL METHODIST MISSION (ENTRANCE BLOCK ONLY), 44-50, MARKET STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384491
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Queens Hall Methodist Mission (Entrance Block Only)
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUEENS HALL METHODIST MISSION (ENTRANCE BLOCK ONLY), 44-50, MARKET STREET
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:
- QUEENS HALL METHODIST MISSION (ENTRANCE BLOCK ONLY), 44-50, MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 58126 05834
Details
WIGAN
SD5805NW MARKET STREET
24-1/7/39 (West side)
Nos.44-50 (Even)
Queens Hall Methodist Mission
(entrance block only)
II
Entrance block of former concert hall (demolished 1985), now
Methodist Mission. 1906, by Bradshaw and Gass of Bolton;
altered. Red brick in English garden wall bond, with
stone-coloured dressings, graduated slate roof. Rectangular
plan. Edwardian Baroque style.
3 storeys and attic plus a 2-stage turret, 2:1:2 windows,
symmetrical; ground floor altered; giant pilasters to the
centre, pulvinated frieze and modillioned cornice, square
turret with clasping pilasters and prominent cornice to the
lower stage, domed Baroque upper stage. The 1st floor has tall
cross-windows with wooden mullions and transoms, and moulded
architraves with large keyblocks and open segmental pediments,
that in the centre featured with Ionic columns and the others
with festoons; the 2nd floor has 2-light casements with
simpler architraves; at attic level the turret has a lunette
with triple keystone, the outer bays have large pedimented
dormers with 3-light casements; and all these windows have
glazing bars. Raised coped gables, gable chimneys. Forms a
very prominent feature of the street.
Listing NGR: SD5812605834
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484925
- 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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