Building record MLI97194 - Methodist Church, Salem Street, Gosberton

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Methodist Church, Salem Street, Gosberton

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PRN 25567 This is a building identified as of historical interest by the South Holland District Council Local List. It is a good example of this style of building of this period and survives with only a few changes to its original construction. There is no further information available at this time. {1} The site was visited in 2010. The Wesleyan chapel is indicated on the 1932 OS County Series map. The first Wesleyan chapel was built on the High Street in 1834. It was replaced by the current chapel, in Salem Street, in 1878 which is still in use as Gosberton Methodist Church in 2010. It is built in Gothic style of red brick with ashlar and blue brick dressings and has a gabled roof with a slate covering, roof vents and ornamental ridge copings with metal finials. The gables are raised with stone copings. The front gable has 3 bays divided by stepped buttresses with stone cappings, which are surmounted by stone pinnacles, and angle buttresses. The central bay has a pointed moulded doorway with a band of blue brick in the arch and a stone hoodmould. It is flanked by small ogee windows with cusped tracery. The outer bays have lancet windows with cusped tracery, saddle bars, and arches with a band of blue brick. Above the central doorway is a course of blue brick and two moulded stringcourses bordering a band of terracotta quatrefoils. Above is a stepped 4-light pointed window with cusped gothic tracery and a small tiangular opening in the apex of the gable which is bordered by blue brick. The rear elevation has a corresponding opening. The side elevations have 6 bays of lancet windows, with cusped tracery and saddle bars, separated by buttresses. The sixth bay of the west elevation is occupied by a lean-to annexe and there is a low gabled annexe to the rear. A foundation stone is dated 1878.{2}{3}{4}{5}

Sources/Archives (5)

  •  Unpublished Document: South Holland District Council. South Holland Local Listing Document. 8/7.
  •  Digital Archive: Lincolnshire County Council. 2004-2009. GIS layer depicting locations and survival of nonconformist chapels. 25567.
  •  Map: Ordnance Survey. 1907-1950. 25 Inch County Series Map - Third Edition. 1:2500. 126/9.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: R.W. Ambler. 1979. Lincolnshire Returns of the Census of Religious Worship, 1851. page 21.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Shepherdson, C. and Leveritt, N.. 1997. A List and Brief Details of Chapels in the Spalding Circuit Past and Present. Gosberton WM.

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Grid reference Centred TF 23943 31651 (13m by 22m)
Civil Parish GOSBERTON, SOUTH HOLLAND, LINCOLNSHIRE

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