Former New Jerusalem Church
FORMER NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH, HIGHER BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388069
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former New Jerusalem Church
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH, HIGHER BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388069
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former New Jerusalem Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH, HIGHER BRIDGE STREET
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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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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:
- FORMER NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH, HIGHER BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bolton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 71683 09686
Details
BOLTON
SD7109NE HIGHER BRIDGE STREET 797-1/14/122 (West side) 26/04/74 Former New Jerusalem Church (Formerly Listed as: HIGHER BRIDGE STREET Elim Pentecostal Church. Manse adjoining Elim Pentecostal Church)
II
Chapel, built as New Jerusalem Church, later Elim Pentecostal church and now a retail warehouse. Dated 1844. Designed by James Greenhalgh (Bolton Journal). Brick with slate roof. EXTERIOR: pedimented gable facing street with central doorway in Tuscan architrave, flanked by tall round arched windows. Similar round arched window over doorway, and datestone in apex. Wood cornice of pediment apparently renewed. 4-window returns, also with round arched windows, all with margin lights. INTERIOR: no original features survive. (Bolton Journal (Pictorial Bolton Series CXXIX): 1886-).
Listing NGR: SD7168309686
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476067
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bolton Journal in Pictorial Bolton Series CXXIX, (1886)
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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