Acorn Glass Merchants Premises

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SE23NE CHURCH LANE, Meanwood 714-1/6/955 (West side) Acorn Glass Merchants' premises

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Formerly known as: Woodside Wesleyan Chapel CHURCH LANE Meanwood. Wesleyan chapel, now warehouse and offices. Dated 1811, additions 1883, altered C20. Built by Samuel Prince, class leader and stone mason. Coursed squared gritstone, roof replaced in concrete tiles. Single storey, 5 windows. Plinth. Central board door to chapel entrance, round-arched window with date plaque, 'AD 1811' above, in plain stone surround with impost blocks. Flanking windows similar, 5 x 4-pane sashes with glazing bars. Entrance left, between windows 1 and 2, in plain stone surround. Rear: a lean-to range, original windows. Left return: added bay not of special interest. Right return, to road: narrow window to ground floor, possibly an entrance originally; lunette window to gable. INTERIOR: not inspected. The building was sold to George Barber in 1883 who added the mock timber-framed end bay and converted the chapel to a laundry which closed c1973. (Hopwood, W A & Casperson, F P: Meanwood, Village, Valley, Industry and People: 1986-: 33; Hopwood, A & Rose, S: Sesquicentenary Story: 150 years of Meanwood Methodism: 1961-: 13).

Listing NGR: SE2847937222