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Latitude: 50.4649 / 50°27'53"N
Longitude: -3.5471 / 3°32'49"W
OS Eastings: 290290
OS Northings: 63934
OS Grid: SX902639
Mapcode National: GBR QV.X09M
Mapcode Global: FRA 37GT.MY3
Plus Code: 9C2RFF73+X5
Entry Name: Methodist Church
Listing Date: 3 May 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1218040
English Heritage Legacy ID: 390729
ID on this website: 101218040
Location: Chelston, Torbay, Devon, TQ2
County: Torbay
Electoral Ward/Division: Cockington-with-Chelston
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Paignton
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Cockington St George and St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
Tagged with: Protestant church building
TORQUAY
SX9063 OLD MILL ROAD, Chelston
885-1/17/333 (North side)
Methodist Church
GV II
Methodist chapel. 1908 (datestone). Rock-faced local red
sandstone with Bathstone dressings, yellow brick dressings to
hall to rear; natural slate roof, stone slates to spire.
Gothic style, a conscious foil to the parish church of St
Luke, Warren Hill (qv), across the valley.
PLAN: Chancel, nave, 5-bay north aisle; south-east tower; west
end hall roofed at right-angles.
EXTERIOR: East end gabled with a moulded doorway with tympanum
carved with trefoil containing date; flanking lancet windows.
Triplet of one-light traceried windows above. Set-back
buttresses to the right with pinnacle gabled on 4 sides with
spinelet finial. Tower to the left square on plan broached to
octagonal belfry stage and tall pyramidal roof with stone
slates; tower has trefoil-headed windows. Buttressed north
aisle with lean-to roof and one-light traceried windows.
Westernmost bay gabled to the front with a 2-light window.
South elevation similar. 2-window link block to hall is 2
storeys with crank-headed windows on each side. Hall crosswing
has large 4-light crank-headed windows to gabled north and
south ends and one-window elevations to the west. Doorway to
hall on south side in link block.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but contains complete set of ornate
Art Nouveau glass.
Chelston, a suburb of Torquay, is a well-preserved C19
development with detached villas and later terraces built on
picturesque hilly ground. The spire of the Methodist church is
an important feature.
Listing NGR: SX9029063934
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