Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


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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