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| Street Chapel, Garsdale | ||
| Street Chapel | ||
| locality:- | Garsdale | |
| locality:- | Garsdale valley | |
| civil parish:- | Garsdale (formerly Yorkshire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | methodist chapel | |
| locality type:- | chapel | |
| coordinates:- | SD74808960 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD7489 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD78 | |
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 BQV16.jpg (taken 18.6.2009)  BQV17.jpg Plaque and sign:- "PRIMITIVE / METHODIST / CHAPEL [AD] 1841" "Street / Chapel" (taken 18.6.2009) |
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| Built 1841. The chapel has tiered seats which make it easy for the preacher to maintain
eye contact with his congregation. A bench known as the penitent form stands below
the pulpit, where public confessions were made. |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Garsdale Street Chapel |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "GARSDALE STREET CHAPEL / / HAWES ROAD / GARSDALE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484457 / SD7479989607" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Primitive Methodist chapel. Dated 1841. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, stone slate roof. Rectangular single cell building parallel to road. Plain style. Single storey, 2 windows, symmetrical: a square-headed doorway in the centre with monolithic lintel, flanked at a higher level by rectangular 12-pane windows which have tilting casement openings in the top tier. Both gable walls covered by later buildings. Rear fenestration similar to front." "INTERIOR: 5 tiers of simple panelled pews rising from the centre to the east gable wall, facing a simple raised pulpit at the west end; plastered walls, flat ceiling. A good example of its type, apparently little altered." |
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