Listed Building: METHODIST CHURCH (3.3.3)
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Grade | II |
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Authority | |
EH LBS Legacy ID | 242637 |
Date assigned | 15 October 1984 |
Date last amended |
Description
Methodist Church, c.1899-1907. Ashlar with tiles roofs and lead spire. To the south is a red brick and slate parish room, not included. Ashlar coped gables with kneelers, exposed rafters at the eaves, and an ashlar stack to the south west. The church is butressed and set on a plinth which decresases in depth towards the brick wing. North west tower with porch and fleche, east porch, nave with north and south aisles and north and south transpets, chancel, east vestry and organ area. The squat tower, of 2 stages with string course at junction, has on the ground floor west a 2-light window with cusping, lead panes and square head. There is a similar window on the 2nd floor. The north doorway has a recessed tudor arched door with iron fittings and depressed arch over. There is a square headed 2-light window to the 3rd floor with cusping and lead panes. The tower is embattled, with merlons wider than embrasures, and is topped with a wood and fleche, decorated with herring bone pattern, and weather vane. The corners of the tower are stepped in twice, the inner is continued to the parapet and rises slightly above the embattlements. The north nave has a 4-light flowing tracery window with hood mould. The north, angle buttressed, side of the east porch has a 2-light mullioned window with lead panes. The east porch doorway has a recessed Tudor arched wooden double door with iron fitments and a depressed arch over. There is a single lancet with lead panes to the south of the doorway and a futher rectangular light under the apex gable. The east aisle wall has a 2 square headed 3-light windows with lead panes and cusping. The transept has a 3-light flowing tracery window with lead panes and hoodmould with lead panes and hoodmould with a small rectangular light above. The vestry has a single window with lead panes and to the south, a 4-light window with lead panes. Under the apex is a 2-light window with lead panes. Between the diagonally butressed transpet and vestry is a recessed doorway. The wooden door has iron fitments, its top panel being glass, and an arch over. The west of the chancel has two 2-light windows each with quatrefoil, cusping, lead panes and hood mould. In the re-entrant angle between the chancel and west transept is a small projecting ashlar porch with ashlar tiles, having door to the suth and rectangular light to the west. The west transept has to its south wall a 3-light square window with cusping and lead panse. To the west is a 3-light window with flowing tracery, asile has 2 square headed 3-light windows with cusping. Interior: ashlar, with the transepts from the nave is slightly wider. The east wall of the chancel has an arch over the organ chamber. Leading into both porches are wooden 1/4 glazed arches over. the church has original oal pews, pulpit, lectern, the chancel having oak panelling to all 3 sides. (NCC/js)
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Location
Grid reference | Centred SK 81712 51557 (19m by 23m) |
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Map sheet | SK85SW |
District | Newark |
Civil Parish | Balderton, Newark |
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Record last edited
Apr 29 2015 11:39AM