Description

SE22SE OSSETT QUEEN STREET
(west side)

3/30 Former Primitive
4.5.82 Methodist Chapel
-

II

Former chapel, now in industrial use. Dated 1863, later rear addition.
Squared, dressed stone with ashlar quoins and dressings. Welsh slate roof.
Two storeys and basement. Pedimented 3-bay symmetrical front framed by
rusticated quoins. Projecting plinth below which are 2 square-headed
basement windows. Central round-arched doorway with fanlight, gained by a
renewed brick stair, in a rusticated slightly-projecting panel which
continues through the 1st floor. Round-arched sash windows with glazing
bars, that to the 1st-floor centre with wide ashlar surround. Band between
floors. The pediment has a central tablet inscribed:

"MOUNT ZION
Primitive Methodist Church
1863"

The rear elevation is framed by square clasping buttresses which rise as
corner stacks. Central addition with 2 round-arched windows to ground floor
and 2 square-headed basement windows, that to left now enlarged to form a
loading door. The flanking side walls have round-arched windows. Left and
right returns are plain apart from a basement door and window.
Interior: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE2781020114

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26428900

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