Description

ST54SE PILTON CP TOP STREET (South side)

15/160 Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

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Wesleyan Methodist chapel. Early C19, some mid/ late C19 alterations. Coursed and squared rubble, dressed flush quoins,
slate roof, coped verges, that over entrance with finials at its base and a stone lantern with a spirelet at it's apex;
brick stack. Rectangular on plan, irregular lean-to outshuts to rear; Gothick with some Early English style features.
Entrance frontage with a large 4-light pointed arch window, simple intersecting tracery, stopped label, 2 smaller
2-light windows to each side with Y-tracery, leaded lights. Central projecting ashlar entrance porch with paired
shafted pointed arch door openings, plank doors with eleborate strap hinges; gabled labels reaching up to a parapet
pierced by quatrefoils; a crocketted finial at each corner, a poppy finial set over each doorway. Two bay returns with
tall 2-light pointed arch windows, again leaded lights. Outshut to rear with a pointed arch door opening each side of
the chapel.

Listing NGR: ST5915740990

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26311068

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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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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)