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Methodist Chapel, Edinburgh Road, Tranent

A Category C Listed Building in Preston, Seton and Gosford, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.969 / 55°58'8"N

Longitude: -2.9643 / 2°57'51"W

OS Eastings: 339905

OS Northings: 675527

OS Grid: NT399755

Mapcode National: GBR 2J.WZZN

Mapcode Global: WH7TV.F7MG

Plus Code: 9C7VX29P+H7

Entry Name: Methodist Chapel, Edinburgh Road, Tranent

Listing Name: Edinburgh Road, Methodist Chapel with Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 20 March 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390611

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43953

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200390611

Location: Cockenzie and Portseton

County: East Lothian

Town: Cockenzie And Portseton

Electoral Ward: Preston, Seton and Gosford

Traditional County: East Lothian

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Description

Dated 1878 (datestone), small modern rear extension. Austere but elegant small church, symmetrical in simple neo-Romanesque style. Main elevation in hammer-faced brown sandstone ashlar, otherwise random rubble. Base course.

N (front) elevation 3-bay gable with central round-arched doorway advanced in gabled porch with open pediment. Door 4-panelled, 2 leaf, with semicircular, geometrically patterned fanlight. Flanked by tall round-arched window to either side. Gablehead in open pediment, dentilled course below skew and central plaque. E and W elevations both with 2 tall round-arched windows. Flat-roofed harled extension adjoining rear (S) gable.

Windows timber sash and case with coloured border glazing. Roof in ungraded grey Welsh slates. Ashlar skews, small chimney stack with single vent on rear gable.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble coped rubble, with dwarf wall to front (modern railings) and round-arched heads to terminal piers.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Plaque on front elevation bears the inscription "Primitive Methodist 1878".

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