Description

TORQUAY

SX9063 OLD MILL ROAD, Chelston
885-1/17/333 (North side)
Methodist Church

GV II

Methodist chapel. 1908 (datestone). Rock-faced local red
sandstone with Bathstone dressings, yellow brick dressings to
hall to rear; natural slate roof, stone slates to spire.
Gothic style, a conscious foil to the parish church of St
Luke, Warren Hill (qv), across the valley.
PLAN: Chancel, nave, 5-bay north aisle; south-east tower; west
end hall roofed at right-angles.
EXTERIOR: East end gabled with a moulded doorway with tympanum
carved with trefoil containing date; flanking lancet windows.
Triplet of one-light traceried windows above. Set-back
buttresses to the right with pinnacle gabled on 4 sides with
spinelet finial. Tower to the left square on plan broached to
octagonal belfry stage and tall pyramidal roof with stone
slates; tower has trefoil-headed windows. Buttressed north
aisle with lean-to roof and one-light traceried windows.
Westernmost bay gabled to the front with a 2-light window.
South elevation similar. 2-window link block to hall is 2
storeys with crank-headed windows on each side. Hall crosswing
has large 4-light crank-headed windows to gabled north and
south ends and one-window elevations to the west. Doorway to
hall on south side in link block.
INTERIOR: Not inspected but contains complete set of ornate
Art Nouveau glass.
Chelston, a suburb of Torquay, is a well-preserved C19
development with detached villas and later terraces built on
picturesque hilly ground. The spire of the Methodist church is
an important feature.

Listing NGR: SX9029063934

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512711

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas