Description

MASHAM

1159/0/10005 PARK STREET
23-JAN-04 Methodist Church

II
Methodist chapel. c. 1890. Rock-faced ashlar with rock-faced ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Quoins, first floor band and dentilated cornice.
East front has four windows and is topped with a broad pediment. Projecting double porch has two segment arched openings with keystones and a central column. Double doors in each opening with half-glazed doors. Porch topped with openwork balustrade with prominent corner finials. Either side single segment-arched windows with impost band. Above two central round-headed windows divided by a pilasters. Either side single half-columns supporting moulded cornice, flanked by single round headed window with keystones. Triple arched decorative feature in pediment.
Sides have 5 segment headed windows on the ground floor with keystones, and five round headed windows above.
INTERIOR has 3 sided upper galleries with panelled fronts and fitted pews. Western end has pilaster screen with organ decorated with painted and gilded pipes. These galleries supported on 7 slim cast iron columns with decorative capitals. Ground floor retains fitted pews, dado panelling, panelled doors and raised central reading desk with communion table below.

This late-nineteenth century Methodist chapel is of special architectural interest. Designed in a contemporary Classical style, it is little-altered externally, and retains its original fixtures and fittings in an impressive, well preserved interior.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26670191

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)