Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
8921
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/03/1985
Date of Amendment
26/03/1985
Name of Property
Methodist Church and Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Presteigne
Town
Locality
Easting
331270
Northing
264624
Street Side
Location
Set back from the street with a walled and railed forecourt.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Dated 1867 (parchment scroll over doorway) and 1888 (hall). Built as Methodist Chapel (1867 inscription), later used as Primitive Methodist Church (1951 OS map).
Exterior
Simple Gothic gable end with advanced centre bay. Coursed rubble and freestone dressings, slate roof behind gable parapets with moulded kneelers and bracket eaves. Trefoil-headed lancet to gable over centrepiece flanked by buttresses with set-offs, ball-flower cornice. Y-traceried window over cusped centre doorway, hood moulds, boarded door strapwork hinges. Plain lancets to sides and flanked elevations, lozenge-pattern glazing with stained glass to centre window heads only. Lower gable end in similar style (dated 1888) to church hall on right, Sunday School attached to E end, blocked window in gable over.
Stone forecourt walls with pinnacled gatepiers, iron work railings and gate with quatrefoil motif.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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