Structure

High House Chapel AKA High House Methodist Chapel and Weardale Museum, Ireshopeburn

Historic Building

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
CategoryHistoric Building
SubcategoryManse,
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel,
War Memorial (Tribute),
Museum
Date1760,
2000
EraHanoverian (1714 to 1837),
Late 20th Century (1967 to 2000),
20th Century (1901 to 2000)
Tags
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PeopleHouse
PlacesIreshopeburn
OrganisationsWeardale Museum,
High House Methodist Chapel
Keywords
ExpandSlender, tapered cast iron columns,
AKA High House Methodist Chapel,
cast iron panels,
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel,
Welsh slate roof,
Round-headed louvred opening,
flat stone lintels,
stone sills to,
plain stone surround,
stylised flower patterns,
plain stone chimney-piece,
2-centred-arched drip mould,
stone gable copings,
12-sided ceiling ventilators,
Continuous drip mould,
4-panelled double door,
C19 kitchen range,
High House Chapel,
high pulpit,
drip moulds,
gable peak,
stippled-plaster ceiling,
continuous gallery,
Gothic panels,
fret panels,
ministers house,
Sandstone rubble,
ashlar dressings,
one-bay pent,
West front,
2-centred arch,
similar surrounds,
similar style,
sill string,
south fronts,
20-pane sashes,
stencilled decoration,
panelled balustrade,
west gallery,
Communion rail,
side aisles,
front room,
rear room,
window shutters,
L-plan stair,
Gothic newels,
war memorials,
2 lower storeys,
left chimney,
smaller balusters,
narrower windows,
3 first-floor windows,
Weardale Museum,
2 storeys,
3 windows,
Ireshopeburn,
quoins,
plinth,
2 bays,
porch,
fanlight,
wide,
pilasters,
North,
Interior,
dado,
abaci,
marbling,
3 sides,
brackets,
wall,
organ,
moulded,
handrail,
number,
items

High House Chapel AKA High House Methodist Chapel and Weardale Museum, Ireshopeburn source ref records

ref title
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

type
Listed Building
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