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Grove Methodist Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Horsforth, Leeds

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Latitude: 53.8369 / 53°50'12"N

Longitude: -1.6411 / 1°38'28"W

OS Eastings: 423712

OS Northings: 437912

OS Grid: SE237379

Mapcode National: GBR JSZ2.H9

Mapcode Global: WHC94.RTPD

Plus Code: 9C5WR9P5+QG

Entry Name: Grove Methodist Church

Listing Date: 30 September 1973

Last Amended: 7 April 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1261152

English Heritage Legacy ID: 438097

ID on this website: 101261152

Location: Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS18

County: Leeds

Civil Parish: Horsforth

Built-Up Area: Horsforth

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Horsforth St Margaret

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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SE 23 NW
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HORSFORTH
TOWN STREET LS18 (east side)
Grove Methodist Church

(Formerly listed as Wesleyan Chapel and Old Barn)

30.9.1975

GV
II

Methodist Church.Dated 1867 on porch. Coursed rock-faced sandstone, Welsh slate roofs. Gothic style. Nave on north-south axis, with north chancel, east and west transepts, and unususal external porch-cum-stair turret at south-west corner. Prominent porch, treated as a tower, of elongated hexagonal plan on axis parallel to church, has coupled two-centred-arched doorways (entrance to left, gallery staircase to right), both with shafts which have stiff-leaf capitals, all within a slightly projected gabled surround containing a foliated medallion with monogrammed date; steeply-pitched saddle-back roof with ornamental wrought-iron cresting on the ridge. Four-bay nave has two-centred-arched three-light plate-traceried windows (three on west side, four on east side), and in the south gable a large plate-traceried "west" window of five lights with a multifoil in the head. Transepts each have five triangular-headed lancets at ground floor, and a large plate-traceried circular window above. Steeply-pitched roof.

Interior: gallery at south end; arch-braced hammer-beam roof.

Listing NGR: SE2371237912

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