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Groves Chapel

A Grade II Listed Building in Guildhall, York

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Latitude: 53.9681 / 53°58'5"N

Longitude: -1.0817 / 1°4'54"W

OS Eastings: 460339

OS Northings: 452837

OS Grid: SE603528

Mapcode National: GBR NQWK.M9

Mapcode Global: WHFC3.CJ4B

Plus Code: 9C5WXW99+68

Entry Name: Groves Chapel

Listing Date: 16 February 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1259270

English Heritage Legacy ID: 463073

Also known as: Co-op - Clarence Street

ID on this website: 101259270

Location: The Groves, York, North Yorkshire, YO31

County: York

Electoral Ward/Division: Guildhall

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: York

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: York St Thomas with St Maurice

Church of England Diocese: York

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Description



YORK

SE6052NW CLARENCE STREET
1112-1/8/173 (West side)
16/02/88 Groves Chapel

II

Wesleyan Chapel, now offices. 1881-4 by WJ Morley (Bradford),
but dated 1883 on frieze. Light red brick with sandstone
dressings; slate roof.
EXTERIOR: road front 2 storeys, 4 bays with 2 inner bays
raised, projecting and pedimented. Paired doors with fanlights
in twin arched porch with keyed archivolts resting on detached
columns; impost string, cornice and low blocking course
(original balustrade over porch now removed). Flanking
segment-headed windows, with apron panels, in architraves. At
first floor centre 2 large round-arched windows, with shaped
glazing in heads, in keyed architraves with impost string;
this section framed in side pilasters and top entablature with
WESLEYAN 1883 CHAPEL in stone frieze panels and cornice on
paired brackets. Pediment has oculus in tympanum, acroterion
and antefixae. Side bays have similar but plainer windows,
side pilasters, cornice and blocking course with urns on
corner pedestals. Hipped roof with ridge vents. 6-bay returns
have windows similar to those in front outer bays; and
first-floor string and top entablature. Lower 1-bay rear
extension.
INTERIOR: a large open preaching box with gallery curved round
3 sides. Deeply-coved cornice to panelled ceiling with raised
borders framing large, ornamented central areas. Central
pulpit area now partitioned off, as are the choir benches
above and the large organ, with panelled arcaded console,
framed in fluted composite pilasters and entablature with
enriched frieze. Good-quality panelled woodwork throughout.
Painted glass in heads of windows with archivolts linked by
impost string.


Listing NGR: SE6033952837

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