Description

SE 30 NW
4/123

DARTON
SPARK LANE
(East side), Mapplewell
Former United Methodist Free Church, including attached railings at front

II

Former church, now business premises, with attached front railings. Dated
1829. Coursed squared stone. Welsh slate roof. Two storeys. 2-bay
symmetrical gable front. Six-panel double doors to left and right, each with
tall round-arched overlight. In front of each doorway is a balcony gained by
a short central stone stair. The left balcony is altered but the right is
supported on cast-iron columns supporting an iron framwork. Iron railings
with fleur-de-lys finials and iron gates with overthrow. Between the doors a
central tablet reads:

"UNITED METHODIST
FREE CHURCH
ONE IS YOUR MASTER EVEN CHRIST
AND ALL YE ARE BRETHEREN
AD 1829"

Round-arched window in gable apex. Gable copings. The rear elevation is
rendered and has three single windows to each floor, those to first floor
being round-arched (one part-blocked). Roof hipped at this end. The right
return has a small stone porch with a single light to left and right.

Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE3282409852

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26601152

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Old House Care and Repair