Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Methodist Church and Hall
Presteigne, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 26 March 1985
- Community
- Presteigne
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.27545, -3.00876
- Cadw reference
- 8921
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the street with a walled and railed forecourt.
History
Dated 1867 (parchment scroll over doorway) and 1888 (hall). Built as Methodist Chapel (1867 inscription), later used as Primitive Methodist Church (1951 OS map).
Exterior
Simple Gothic gable end with advanced centre bay. Coursed rubble and freestone dressings, slate roof behind gable parapets with moulded kneelers and bracket eaves. Trefoil-headed lancet to gable over centrepiece flanked by buttresses with set-offs, ball-flower cornice. Y-traceried window over cusped centre doorway, hood moulds, boarded door strapwork hinges. Plain lancets to sides and flanked elevations, lozenge-pattern glazing with stained glass to centre window heads only. Lower gable end in similar style (dated 1888) to church hall on right, Sunday School attached to E end, blocked window in gable over.
Stone forecourt walls with pinnacled gatepiers, iron work railings and gate with quatrefoil motif.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
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- Boundary Wall between Garage at No.2 and Coach House to Manor HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
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- Coach House to rear of Manor HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.