Description

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SE 12 NW
1/48

SHELF
CARR HOUSE ROAD (south side)
Bethel Methodist Church

(formerly listed as Shelf United Methodist Church under Shelf)

29. 4. 82

II
Chapel. Bearing date plaque 1853. Hammer-dressed stone, slate roof square on plan with Sunday School rear wing. Two storeys. Plinth, four bay facade has doorways with flat pilasters and cornice to outer bays. Between are two semi-circular arched sash windows retaining original glazing. To first floor are four similar windows. Return walls of four similar bays of windows. Those to first floor light gallery. Pyramidal roof, moulded cornice with gutter brackets.

Interior: horse shoe shaped gallery retains its box pews. The organ is set within an elliptical arched recess which has architrave rising from moulded impost supported by console. Plaster ceiling has central floral motif with dove to centre carrying laurel leaf.

Listing NGR: SE1276028913

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Bethel Methodist Church at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26479964

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (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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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)