Nexus Methodist Church (Walcot Building)
Nexus Methodist Church (Walcot Building), London Road
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Overview
LONDON ROAD (south side)
Nexus Methodist Church (Walcot Building)
(formerly listed as Walcot Methodist Church)
12/06/50
GV
II
Methodist Church. Dated 1815. By Rev. W Jenkins of London.
MATERIALS: limestone ashlar and rubblestone, roof unseen.
PLAN: five-bay rectangular plan.
EXTERIOR: two storeys to front, symmetrical five-window front. Slender raised pediment over three slightly stepped forward central ranges has plaque to tympanum with `WALCOT CHAPEL 1815', below it are three incised panels each flanked by pilasters with incised panels tapering toward bases. Parapet flanking pediment sweeps down on each side to meet quoins, quadrants thus formed are filled with fluted quarter fans. Below, modillion cornice and frieze span façade. Slightly raised horizontal panel to centre of frieze has "DEO SACRUM" flanked by laurel wreaths. First floor has five incised semi-circular arches and imposts around eight/eight-pane sash windows with radial glazing bars, articulated by fluted pilasters rising from ground floor platband with Corinthian style capitals. Central window flanked by paired pilasters. Ground floor has banded rustication and similar windows to first floor flanking prostyle porch with paired fluted Doric columns to each corner supporting deep entablature, triglyph frieze, blocking course and ornamented soffits. Double four-panel doors with wide fanlight. Ground floor platband encircles building, left return has two windows similar to those at front to first floor right corner, three to first floor left and five to ground floor are similar in size and shape with coloured leaded glazing. Double porch to schoolroom has paired semi-circular arches articulated by Tuscan pilasters supporting cornice with `GIRLS' to left and `BOYS' to right. Parapet facing front of building is inscribed `WESLEYAN SCHOOLS'. Lower ground floor has three large six/six-pane sash windows with curved upper corners. Right return similar without porch. Rear is four storeys with plain gable end and two coloured leaded windows to upper corners. Four-storey rectanglar projection to centre has stone corbels and timber brackets to lobby at centre top, possibly to house organ.
INTERIOR: `The interior measures 71' by 52' and is surrounded on three sides by horseshoe gallery with a panelled front over the entablature supported by Doric columns' (Ison). A late C19 rostrum pulpit has an organ chamber behind with a vestry beneath. Original box pews in situ but with doors removed (Stell).
HISTORY: built for the second Wesleyan society to be established in Bath (after the New King Street society), this chapel was designed by the itinerant minister, the Rev. William Jenkins, who had received some architectural training (cf his Lambeth Chapel, Lambeth Road, London of 1808). The chapel is notable for the intactness of its various constituent parts, and possesses a very handsome street frontage.
SOURCES
Ison W, The Georgian Buildings of Bath, 1980, p63
Jackson N, Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture, 1991, p48
Colvin H, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840, 1978, p458
Stell C, An Inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in South-West England (RCHME 1991) p165
Listing NGR: ST7520865675
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394841
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Nexus Methodist Church (Walcot Building)
- Statutory Address:
- Nexus Methodist Church (Walcot Building), London Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394841
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Nexus Methodist Church (Walcot Building)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Nexus Methodist Church (Walcot Building), London Road
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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:
- Nexus Methodist Church (Walcot Building), London Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75208 65675
Summary
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 May 2026 to amend a date in the description and reformat the text to current standards
LONDON ROAD (south side)
Nexus Methodist Church (Walcot Building)
(formerly listed as Walcot Methodist Church)
12/06/50
GV
II
Methodist Church. Dated 1815. By Rev. W Jenkins of London.
MATERIALS: limestone ashlar and rubblestone, roof unseen.
PLAN: five-bay rectangular plan.
EXTERIOR: two storeys to front, symmetrical five-window front. Slender raised pediment over three slightly stepped forward central ranges has plaque to tympanum with `WALCOT CHAPEL 1815', below it are three incised panels each flanked by pilasters with incised panels tapering toward bases. Parapet flanking pediment sweeps down on each side to meet quoins, quadrants thus formed are filled with fluted quarter fans. Below, modillion cornice and frieze span façade. Slightly raised horizontal panel to centre of frieze has "DEO SACRUM" flanked by laurel wreaths. First floor has five incised semi-circular arches and imposts around eight/eight-pane sash windows with radial glazing bars, articulated by fluted pilasters rising from ground floor platband with Corinthian style capitals. Central window flanked by paired pilasters. Ground floor has banded rustication and similar windows to first floor flanking prostyle porch with paired fluted Doric columns to each corner supporting deep entablature, triglyph frieze, blocking course and ornamented soffits. Double four-panel doors with wide fanlight. Ground floor platband encircles building, left return has two windows similar to those at front to first floor right corner, three to first floor left and five to ground floor are similar in size and shape with coloured leaded glazing. Double porch to schoolroom has paired semi-circular arches articulated by Tuscan pilasters supporting cornice with `GIRLS' to left and `BOYS' to right. Parapet facing front of building is inscribed `WESLEYAN SCHOOLS'. Lower ground floor has three large six/six-pane sash windows with curved upper corners. Right return similar without porch. Rear is four storeys with plain gable end and two coloured leaded windows to upper corners. Four-storey rectanglar projection to centre has stone corbels and timber brackets to lobby at centre top, possibly to house organ.
INTERIOR: `The interior measures 71' by 52' and is surrounded on three sides by horseshoe gallery with a panelled front over the entablature supported by Doric columns' (Ison). A late C19 rostrum pulpit has an organ chamber behind with a vestry beneath. Original box pews in situ but with doors removed (Stell).
HISTORY: built for the second Wesleyan society to be established in Bath (after the New King Street society), this chapel was designed by the itinerant minister, the Rev. William Jenkins, who had received some architectural training (cf his Lambeth Chapel, Lambeth Road, London of 1808). The chapel is notable for the intactness of its various constituent parts, and possesses a very handsome street frontage.
SOURCES
Ison W, The Georgian Buildings of Bath, 1980, p63
Jackson N, Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture, 1991, p48
Colvin H, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840, 1978, p458
Stell C, An Inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in South-West England (RCHME 1991) p165
Listing NGR: ST7520865675
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 May 2026 to amend a date in the description and reformat the text to current standards
LONDON ROAD (south side)
Nexus Methodist Church (Walcot Building)
(formerly listed as Walcot Methodist Church)
12/06/50
GV
II
Methodist Church. Dated 1815. By Rev. W Jenkins of London.
MATERIALS: limestone ashlar and rubblestone, roof unseen.
PLAN: five-bay rectangular plan.
EXTERIOR: two storeys to front, symmetrical five-window front. Slender raised pediment over three slightly stepped forward central ranges has plaque to tympanum with `WALCOT CHAPEL 1815', below it are three incised panels each flanked by pilasters with incised panels tapering toward bases. Parapet flanking pediment sweeps down on each side to meet quoins, quadrants thus formed are filled with fluted quarter fans. Below, modillion cornice and frieze span façade. Slightly raised horizontal panel to centre of frieze has "DEO SACRUM" flanked by laurel wreaths. First floor has five incised semi-circular arches and imposts around eight/eight-pane sash windows with radial glazing bars, articulated by fluted pilasters rising from ground floor platband with Corinthian style capitals. Central window flanked by paired pilasters. Ground floor has banded rustication and similar windows to first floor flanking prostyle porch with paired fluted Doric columns to each corner supporting deep entablature, triglyph frieze, blocking course and ornamented soffits. Double four-panel doors with wide fanlight. Ground floor platband encircles building, left return has two windows similar to those at front to first floor right corner, three to first floor left and five to ground floor are similar in size and shape with coloured leaded glazing. Double porch to schoolroom has paired semi-circular arches articulated by Tuscan pilasters supporting cornice with `GIRLS' to left and `BOYS' to right. Parapet facing front of building is inscribed `WESLEYAN SCHOOLS'. Lower ground floor has three large six/six-pane sash windows with curved upper corners. Right return similar without porch. Rear is four storeys with plain gable end and two coloured leaded windows to upper corners. Four-storey rectanglar projection to centre has stone corbels and timber brackets to lobby at centre top, possibly to house organ.
INTERIOR: `The interior measures 71' by 52' and is surrounded on three sides by horseshoe gallery with a panelled front over the entablature supported by Doric columns' (Ison). A late C19 rostrum pulpit has an organ chamber behind with a vestry beneath. Original box pews in situ but with doors removed (Stell).
HISTORY: built for the second Wesleyan society to be established in Bath (after the New King Street society), this chapel was designed by the itinerant minister, the Rev. William Jenkins, who had received some architectural training (cf his Lambeth Chapel, Lambeth Road, London of 1808). The chapel is notable for the intactness of its various constituent parts, and possesses a very handsome street frontage.
SOURCES
Ison W, The Georgian Buildings of Bath, 1980, p63
Jackson N, Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture, 1991, p48
Colvin H, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840, 1978, p458
Stell C, An Inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in South-West England (RCHME 1991) p165
Listing NGR: ST7520865675
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510248
- 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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