St Nicholas Methodist Church, Topsham
St Nicholas Methodist Church, Topsham
Overview
Heritage Category:Listed Building
Grade:II
List Entry Number:1266755
Date first listed:08-Nov-1989
Statutory Address:METHODIST CHURCH, FORE STREET TOPSHAM
County:Devon
District:Exeter (District Authority)
National Grid Reference:SX 96596 88093
TOPSHAM FORE STREET SX 98 NE 8/1252 Methodist Church GV II
Wesleyan Methodist church. 1867-9 by J R N Haswell of North Shields. Dressed local grey limestone rubble with red sandstone and Bathstone dressings. Slate roof with stone coped gable ends and scalloped red clay ridge tiles. High Victorian Gothic style, early French Gothic. Plan: Nave, chancel, transepts, north and south porches at west end, round stair tower on south-west corner and vestry in the east angle of the south transept. Exterior: The gabled west front has 5 lancets on ground floor with hoodmoulds and plate-tracery rose window in moulded 2-centred arch with nook shafts in gable above; the impost on right continues as cornice of the round right-hand corner tower. The string course below the rose window also runs around the tower and there are lancets above it. The tower has a copper-clad conical roof with wrought iron finial. On the left hand corner a large buttress with set-offs and gabled north porch with moulded 2-centred arch doorway on front with plank doors and wrought iron hinges. The right-hand (south) porch is set back behind the tower on the south elevation. The south elevation, including the transept, has lancet windows and the transept has a round window in the gable. The apsidal east end of the chancel has lancets and on the south side the vestry has a lean-to roof from which rises the battered shaft of the stack. North elevation not investigated. Interior: Gallery at west end of nave on iron posts. The nave roof has tie-beam trusses with arch braces on stone corbels and king-posts; the transepts have common rafter roofs with ashlar pieces. Chancel has scissor-braced rafter roof with ashlar pieces. Moulded 2-centred chancel arch on marble colonnettes with capitals and corbels. Moulded 2-centred transept arches. All the main furnishings and fittings are intact including benches, pulpit with traceried panels, reading desk, choir stalls, iron and brass sanctuary rail, wooden altar table. Organ in recess on north side of chancel has painted pipes. Lancets in apex have trained glass of 1860s and 70s designed by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. Source: Information provided by C Brooks.
St Nicholas Methodist Church, Topsham
St Nicholas Methodist Church, Topsham
Overview
Heritage Category:Listed Building
Grade:II
List Entry Number:1266755
Date first listed:08-Nov-1989
Statutory Address:METHODIST CHURCH, FORE STREET TOPSHAM
County:Devon
District:Exeter (District Authority)
National Grid Reference:SX 96596 88093
TOPSHAM FORE STREET SX 98 NE 8/1252 Methodist Church GV II
Wesleyan Methodist church. 1867-9 by J R N Haswell of North Shields. Dressed local grey limestone rubble with red sandstone and Bathstone dressings. Slate roof with stone coped gable ends and scalloped red clay ridge tiles. High Victorian Gothic style, early French Gothic. Plan: Nave, chancel, transepts, north and south porches at west end, round stair tower on south-west corner and vestry in the east angle of the south transept. Exterior: The gabled west front has 5 lancets on ground floor with hoodmoulds and plate-tracery rose window in moulded 2-centred arch with nook shafts in gable above; the impost on right continues as cornice of the round right-hand corner tower. The string course below the rose window also runs around the tower and there are lancets above it. The tower has a copper-clad conical roof with wrought iron finial. On the left hand corner a large buttress with set-offs and gabled north porch with moulded 2-centred arch doorway on front with plank doors and wrought iron hinges. The right-hand (south) porch is set back behind the tower on the south elevation. The south elevation, including the transept, has lancet windows and the transept has a round window in the gable. The apsidal east end of the chancel has lancets and on the south side the vestry has a lean-to roof from which rises the battered shaft of the stack. North elevation not investigated. Interior: Gallery at west end of nave on iron posts. The nave roof has tie-beam trusses with arch braces on stone corbels and king-posts; the transepts have common rafter roofs with ashlar pieces. Chancel has scissor-braced rafter roof with ashlar pieces. Moulded 2-centred chancel arch on marble colonnettes with capitals and corbels. Moulded 2-centred transept arches. All the main furnishings and fittings are intact including benches, pulpit with traceried panels, reading desk, choir stalls, iron and brass sanctuary rail, wooden altar table. Organ in recess on north side of chancel has painted pipes. Lancets in apex have trained glass of 1860s and 70s designed by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. Source: Information provided by C Brooks.