Description

TL 1438 SHEFFORD AMPTHILL ROAD
11/93

- Shefford Methodist Church

- II

Methodist church. Erected 1912 on site of Wesleyan chapel. (Kelly's
Directory of Bedfordshire, 1914, p.168). Red brick with stone dressings.
Slate roofs with terracotta ridge cresting. Rectangular building oriented N -
S, with shallow transepts towards S end. Art Nouveau Gothic style, remarkably
unaltered. N (road) gable: semi-octagonal porch to centre, from which rise 2
decorative buttresses. Small battered towers to corners. Stone banding and
coping to gable and porch. Most windows have pointed-arched heads, with
cinquefoiled ogee arch to each light. Central window is large, of 3 lights,
flanking ones are long single lights. Corner towers have lancets. Small
single lights to porch. Segmental-arched doorway contains 5-light fanlight
above part-glazed double doors painted to imitate oak and retaining original
strap hinges. Decorative stone tracery to apex of gable. Wrought ironwork
decoration to roofs of corner towers. Other elevations: similar 2 and 3-light
windows. Interior: apparently unaltered, the decorative features include
moulded ceiling timbers, ogee-headed panelling to S end, fine Art Nouveau
stained glass, and variety of brass fittings.

Listing NGR: TL1409138952

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26407620

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990