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Latitude: 54.5472 / 54°32'49"N
Longitude: -3.5858 / 3°35'8"W
OS Eastings: 297520
OS Northings: 518038
OS Grid: NX975180
Mapcode National: GBR 3HDV.HQ
Mapcode Global: WH5Z1.WYNY
Plus Code: 9C6RGCW7+VM
Entry Name: Methodist Church and Sunday School
Listing Date: 15 December 1978
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1263963
English Heritage Legacy ID: 429158
ID on this website: 101263963
Location: Whitehaven, Cumberland, Cumbria, CA28
County: Cumbria
District: Copeland
Civil Parish: Whitehaven
Built-Up Area: Whitehaven
Traditional County: Cumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Whitehaven St James
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Church building Sunday school
LOWTHER STREET
1.
1814 (North East Side)
II GV Methodist Church and
Sunday School
NX9718 SE 5/190
2.
1877 by T L Banks. Pink sandstone in crazy-paving pattern with ashlar dressings, slated
roofs. Late C13 Gothic style with plate tracery Cruciform with wide apse and prominent
south-west tower. Smaller meeting-room and custodian's flat included behind.
Interior has a deep gallery all round, with Tudor arcading to rail, resting on sandstone
piers which rise to support a stone upper arcade. Capitals carved with foliage and angel
heads. Organ in central east gallery. Raised pulpit probably later. Wall inserted
below west gallery.
At rear the Sunday School building, now used as a concert hall, in plain coursed sandstone
with some ornament to windows.
Listing NGR: NX9752018038
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