Description

OLDHAM

SD90SW GEORGE STREET
780-1/3/32 (West side)
02/08/83 Independent Methodist Chapel

II*

Methodist chapel. 1815. Brick, with Welsh slate roof. 4-window
range, unequally divided, and built on a sloping site with
basement to rear, and entrance up steps to right. Tall windows
with stone sills and flat-arched brick heads, with stained
glass margin lights. Paired panelled doors in stone pedimented
architrave with cast-iron railings and gates. Blind basement
windows. Stack on left-hand gable end. Paired high windows
each side of stack in gable wall. Lower side similarly
detailed but with full basement with 3 doors with stone sills
and jambs, and windows partially blocked. INTERIOR: Galleries
to three sides, the frontals with sunken panels, all supported
on cast-iron columns (each with knop and moulded capital).
Complete set of panelled box pews. Tiered seats around rostrum
below organ. Queen post roof. Basement rooms have certain
features including fireplaces with simple stone surrounds and
grates. Said to be the oldest place of worship in Oldham for
Methodists.

Listing NGR: SD9239204858

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17547910

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)