Description

ST ENODER
SW 85 NE
11/315 Summercourt Wesley Church with
- attached Sunday School
II

Methodist church with attached Sunday school. Dated 1845; the Sunday school
of mid-late C19 with some later C20 alterations. Stone rubble with granite dressings and quoins. Hipped slurried scantle slate roof with ridge tiles.
The Sunday school is in granite rubble; slate roof with crested ridge tiles
and gable ends, gable end stack to left with brick shaft.
Plan: Single auditorium plan, with entrance at the front end and ritual east
to rear. The Sunday school is attached to rear left, forming an L-plan.
Exterior: Symmetrical 2-storey front has C19 panelled double doors with
fanlight with radial glazing bars and dressed stone round arch. At upper
level to right and left a C19 2-light 18-pane casement with dressed stone
round arch. Central recessed moulded datestone with inscription: WESLEYAN CHAPEL AD 1845. The right side has two tall round-arched windows with
dressed stone arches, with windows with mullions and transoms. Single storey
lean-to attached to rear. The left side has two similar round-arched windows
with C20 glazing.
The Sunday school is a lower single storey building attached to rear left.
The front has two 3-light casement with shouldered arches and double plank
doors with shouldered arched overlight to right.
Interior: Not accessible, but may retain good internal features such as a
gallery and rostrum.

Listing NGR: SW8827555947

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26493425

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: 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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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5