| Catalogue Finding Number | WYHER/12354 |
| Office record is held at | Historical Environment Record, West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service |
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| Title | Former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Cragg Vale |
| Description | 1835 Wesleyan Methodist Chapel now converted to dwellings (SE 00258 23419).
'House, formerly chapel, dated 1835. Dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys to road with full basement storey to sides and rear. Pediment gable end to road with coping peaked to octagonal chimney stack finial and swept out over kneelers. Eaves band returned to define pediment containing plaque inscribed 'WESLEYAN'; 3 bay symmetrical front has segmental headed chapel windows and doorway all with impost blocks and keystones 1835. Quoins, 3 bay return with similar windows except to basement which has straight lintels. Narrower one bay extension to organ loft to west gable end with same chimney finial and kneelers and similar windows. Interior altered to form residence. Prominently sited above falling ground to the river.'
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 29/04/1982. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1229276. web site accessed 28/06/2013).
This former 1835 Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Peter Thornborrow c.1990. The photographic image produced by the assessment is held by WYAAS (Thornborrow, P.H. (WYAS). c.1990. 'Sowerby. Converted Methodist Chapel Cragg Vale').
The grave yard associated with this chapel was the subject of a watching brief in September 2010 during preparatory groundworks ahead of the construction of a driveway through the disused graveyard adjacent to Wesley House. During the watching brief, three family burial plots, each consisting of a brick and flagstone constructed vault, were indentified. See PRN10607 for further details. |
| Date | 21st century |
| Extent | contact the West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service for information on what is available |
| Level | Item |