Tipton Street Methodist Chapel And Sunday School

SO 99 SW 5/10027

DUDLEY TIPTON STREET Tipton Street Methodist Chapel and Sunday School

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Primitive Methodist chapel and Sunday school. 1857; Sunday school added in 1881.Flernish bond red brick and with stone dressings. Slate roof with stone-coped gable ends and brick dentil eaves cornice. PLAN : Rectangular plan with entrance at SW end under a gallery. In 1881 a small Sunday school was built at the NE end. Classical style. EXTERIOR: Single storey. Symmetrical 3-bay SW front with giant pilasters with stone capitals, brick dentil cornice and wide shaped gable with moulded stone roundel; the centre bay is wider and has a stuccoed portico with Tuscan colwnns, an entablature and a tablet above; the outer bays have large round-arch windows with stone architraves with keystones. 3 windows and pilasters on 3-bay right-hand SE return. Left NW return is 3-bays, but has plain pilasters and plain round-arch windows. Iron-frame windows with leaded panes and stained glass at top. At the NE end the Sunday school, a lower and short brick range with iron-frame round-arch windows. INTERIOR: Gallery on slender columns with panelled front. Pews appear to be intact. SOURCE: Underhill, A.E., The Story of the Ancient Manor of Sedgley, pp.426-431.

Listing NGR: SO9201893507