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High House Chapel AKA High House Methodist Chapel and Weardale Museum, Ireshopeburn
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and minister”s house, now chapel and museum. 1760; extended and raised 1871. Sandstone rubble with quoins, plinth and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Chapel: 2 storeys, 3 windows; house set back at left: 2 lower storeys and 2 bays, the left curved, and one-storey, one-bay pent left porch. West front of chapel has 4-panelled double door and shaped fanlight under wide 2-centred arch on pilasters; similar surrounds to flanking narrower windows all under drip moulds. Continuous drip mould to 3 first-floor windows in similar style with sill string. Round-headed louvred opening in gable peak has 2-centred-arched drip mould. North and south fronts have chamfered flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to 3 windows on each floor. All windows late C19 sashes. House has boarded door in centre, in plain stone surround; 20-pane sashes; truncated left chimney. Interior: painted plaster above boarded and panelled dado; coved stippled-plaster ceiling. Slender, tapered cast iron columns, with abaci, painted in marbling with stencilled decoration, support 3 sides of continuous gallery with panelled balustrade on brackets; west gallery on wall behind high pulpit, which has pierced stylised flower patterns in Gothic panels; organ in west gallery. Communion rail on slender turned balusters; smaller balusters to west of side aisles. 12-sided ceiling ventilators with fret panels. House has C19 kitchen range in front room, plain stone chimney-piece in rear room which has window shutters. L-plan stair has pierced cast iron panels supporting moulded handrail with Gothic newels. The chapel and museum are known to contain a number of items dedicated as war memorials (1).
| ref no. | D37045 | ||||||||
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| Category | Historic Building | ||||||||
| Subcategory | Manse, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, War Memorial (Tribute), Museum | ||||||||
| Date | 1760, 2000 | ||||||||
| Era | Hanoverian (1714 to 1837), Late 20th Century (1967 to 2000), 20th Century (1901 to 2000) | ||||||||
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High House Chapel AKA High House Methodist Chapel and Weardale Museum, Ireshopeburn source ref records
| k2p prn | her id | ref no | ref originator | ref date | ref title | ref note | |
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| High House Chapel etc, A 689, Ireshopeburn | |||||||
| High House Chapel etc, A 689, Ireshopeburn | |||||||
| High House Chapel etc, A 689, Ireshopeburn | |||||||
| High House Chapel etc, A 689, Ireshopeburn | |||||||
| former Minister’s House, now Museum, A 689, Ireshopeburn | |||||||
| List of buildings of special architectural or historic interest, also known as “Greenbacks” | |||||||
| 2 photographs of High House Methodist Chapel, Ireshopeburn | |||||||
| Weardale Chapels | |||||||
| An inventory of nonconformist chapels and meeting-houses in the north of England | |||||||
| North East War Memorials Project |
High House Chapel AKA High House Methodist Chapel and Weardale Museum, Ireshopeburn legal records
| k2p prn | her id | type | nhle number | nhle website | |
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| Listed Building |