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Latitude: 52.6639 / 52°39'49"N
Longitude: 0.1598 / 0°9'35"E
OS Eastings: 546160
OS Northings: 309538
OS Grid: TF461095
Mapcode National: GBR L1Q.Z3Q
Mapcode Global: WHJPH.F9BN
Plus Code: 9F42M575+GW
Entry Name: Wesleyan Chapel
Listing Date: 10 February 1969
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1331609
English Heritage Legacy ID: 48231
ID on this website: 101331609
Location: Wisbech, Fenland, Cambridgeshire, PE13
County: Cambridgeshire
District: Fenland
Civil Parish: Wisbech
Built-Up Area: Wisbech
Traditional County: Cambridgeshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Church of England Parish: Wisbech St Peter and St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Ely
Tagged with: Chapel
The following previous listing date shall be added.
Page 17 Item number 6/32 10.2.69
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WISBECH THE CRESCENT
TF 4609
6/32 Wesleyan Chapel
GV II
Former chapel, built 1803 and enlarged in 1835, part of the
planned circus of the Castle Estate built by Joseph Medworth
(b.1752, d.1827). Dark red brick with rusticated stone quoins;
rendered ground floor and plinth. Two storeys with gallery
band. Brick pedimented parapet with stone copings and three,
patterned iron finials. Central, three-light gallery window
with gauged red brick, round headed arches divided by stone
shafts, two flanking windows with similar arches all with margin
glazing bars. Pair of matching entrances with stone cornices
supported by console brackets; double, sunk-panelled doors. Two
segmental headed ground floor windows with fixed lights.
RCHM (C. Stell), Non-Conformist Chapels, p.25, 1976.
Craddock and Walker, History of Wisbech, p.278, p.392-3, 1849.
Gardiner, History of Wisbech, p.267-8, 1898.
Colvin, p.386, 1954.
VCH Cambs, p.242.
G. Annis, A History of Wisbech Castle, 1977.
Watson, prints, History of Wisbech, 1827.
Listing NGR: TF4616009538
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