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chapel, Distington
civil parish:-   Distington (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   chapel (ex) 
locality type:-   methodist chapel (ex) 
coordinates:-   NY00482265
1Km square:-   NY0022
10Km square:-   NY02
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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CFL57.jpg (taken 2.9.2016)  
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CFL58.jpg "PRIMITIVE / METHODIST CHAPEL / ERECTED / [A]D MDCCCXXXVIII / ..." (taken 2.9.2016)  Plaque:-

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 61 7) 
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Methodist Chapel (Primitive)"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"METHODIST CHAPEL, AREA WALL AND CENTRAL GATE / / A595 / DISTINGTON / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76114 / NY0048622655"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Methodist Chapel, disused at time of survey (January 1984). Stone tablet over door inscribed and dated, with text, PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL ERECTED AD MDCCCXXXVIII. Snecked rubble. Graduated slate roof. Single tall storey, 3 bays; set back from adjoining houses. Symmetrical, with double panelled doors and boarded semicircular fanlight in stone surround; single semicircular headed window to either side, boarded over, in stone surround. Surrounds have projecting imposts and keystone. Area wall snecked rubble with semicircular copings, c6 ft high. Central gate has cast-iron spearhead standards."

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