Building record 3250/26 - Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, High Street

Wesleyan Chapel set back from High Street built in 1840. Coursed rubble and slate, three-bay pedimented front, tall narrow windows, and central entrance with paired pilasters and entablature. To the rear, fronting onto College Street is a School, built in 1898.

{1}The Baptists, Methodists and Congregationalists have met in Wollaston since the 1730s. The present Methodist church was built in 1840 and Sunday school rooms added later.

{2} Coursed rubble and slate, three bay pedimented front with painted wood mouldings, tall narrow windows, central entrance with paired pilasters and entablature, and gable tablet dated 1840.

{3}[To the rear, with a frontage on College Street] is the Wesleyan School built in 1898 [1888?] by J Blunt, architect.

<1> Richards K., 2001, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Wollaston, Section 3.7 Religion (Report). SNN101566.

<2> The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1986, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Northamptonshire & Oxfordshire, p. 153/site 82 (Report). SNN2902.

<3> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 678 (Book). SNN111989.

Record last edited

Apr 28 2022 12:41PM