Sapcote Methodist Church
SAPCOTE METHODIST CHURCH, LEICESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389711
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Sapcote Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- SAPCOTE METHODIST CHURCH, LEICESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389711
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Sapcote Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- SAPCOTE METHODIST CHURCH, LEICESTER 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:
- SAPCOTE METHODIST CHURCH, LEICESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Blaby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sapcote
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 49108 93373
Details
1326/0/10004
08-FEB-02
SAPCOTE
LEICESTER ROAD
Sapcote Methodist Church
II
Methodist church. 1902-5. By Brookes of Broughton Astley. Leicestershire granite with limestone ashlar and granite dressings. Slate roof with stone-coped gable. Arts and Crafts style with Perpendicular tracery to front windows. Contrasting squared and random granite and heavy buttresses with limestone quoins. 2-storey facade with gable facing. Entrance with double plank doors up steps under deep segmental arch between buttresses. Perpendicular style window above and panel inscribed Wesley Church over. Small windows on each storey to sides again set back within buttresses. Sides have 2-light stone mullion windows set between buttresses. Lower element to rear with pulpit end and church offices has long roof coming down to ground floor eaves. The wide limestone plinth around the church consists of many foundation stones inscribed with the names of those who laid them, being contributors to the church.
INTERIOR. Galleries with pews on three sides supported on cast-iron columns, and the gallery with pews on the fourth side behind the pulpit has organ to rear. Arched open fronts to galleries and pew ends have pierced decoration, as have the pulpit with steps up either side and the ground floor pews. Massive hammerbeam roof with arched braces. Stained glass in window above entrance.
HISTORY. The local congregation gave much help in the building. The stone was made available free by the local Sapcote quarry to the quarrymen members if they worked after their normal day's work and local settmakers and kerb dressers worked the dressed stone. Farmers helped in the transport.
This is a well-designed and little altered Methodist church of the period with almost complete internal fittings.
Fortescue, E., My Journey Through the Twentieth Century, 1903-1996, Wesley Historical Society Publishing Office, 1997.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488438
- 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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