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Methodist Church and Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Presteigne, Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.2755 / 52°16'31"N

Longitude: -3.0087 / 3°0'31"W

OS Eastings: 331270

OS Northings: 264624

OS Grid: SO312646

Mapcode National: GBR B5.YZXD

Mapcode Global: VH772.S2RG

Plus Code: 9C4R7XGR+5G

Entry Name: Methodist Church and Hall

Listing Date: 26 March 1985

Last Amended: 26 March 1985

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 8921

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: Methodist Church and Hall,Scottleton Street

ID on this website: 300008921

Location: Set back from the street with a walled and railed forecourt.

County: Powys

Community: Presteigne (Llanandras)

Community: Presteigne

Built-Up Area: Presteigne

Traditional County: Radnorshire

Tagged with: Church building Chapel

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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.

Reasons for Listing

Group value.

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