Information for record number MWA3074:
Wesleyan Chapel, Main Street, Willoughby

Summary A Wesleyan Chapel which dates to 1898 and is believed to have gone out of use around 1990.
What Is It?  
Type: Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Period: Modern (1898 AD - 1990 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Willoughby
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 52 67
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 A Wesleyan Chapel dated 1898. Red brick with a slate roof. The building is not in use but is well maintained. There was an earlier Methodist chapel in a private house (see PRN 3072).
2 The building has more recently been used as a recording studio and a workshop. The Chapel has three pairs of arched windows on the south, west and east walls, and all alternating blue and yellow bricks set above them. building work to the roof revealed that a number of names were scratched into the wood with the date September 1897. Inside the Chapel the pulpit was still in place.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: SMR Card
Author/originator: Pehrson B
Date: 1983
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: PRN 3081
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Watching Brief Report
Title: Willoughby, Main Street, The Old Wesleyan Chapel
Author/originator: Coutts C
Date: 2011
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Volume/Sheet:
   
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source SMR Card Sites and Monuments Record Card. The Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record began to be developed during the 1970s. The details of individual archaeological sites and findspots were written on record cards. These record cards were used until the 1990s, when their details were entered on to a computerised system. The record cards are still kept at the office of the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
period Modern The Modern Period, about 1915 AD to the present (the 20th and 21st centuries AD)

In recent years archaeologists have realised the importance of recording modern sites. They do this so that in the future people will be able to look at the remains to help them understand the events to which they are related.
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period modern About 1915 AD to the present (the 20th and 21st centuries AD)

In recent years archaeologists have realised the importance of recording modern sites. They do this so that in the future people will be able to look at the remains to help them understand the events to which they are related.
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monument PULPIT * Use as an external architectural feature only. back
monument HOUSE * A building for human habitation, especially a dwelling place. Use more specific type where known. back
monument METHODIST CHAPEL * A place of worship for Methodists, a movement founded by John Wesley. Following his death in 1791 there were many secessions. back
monument BUILDING * A structure with a roof to provide shelter from the weather for occupants or contents. Use specific type where known. back
monument WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL * A place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. This was the original Methodist church from which the other denominations seceded. In 1932 they joined the United Methodists and the Primitive Methodists to form the Methodist church. back
monument RECORDING STUDIO * A room or building used for the making of films, television or radio programmes and musical recordings (CDs, LPs, etc). back
monument WELL * A shaft or pit dug in the ground over a supply of spring-water. back
monument WORKSHOP * A building or room used for small scale manufacture. Use more specific term where possible. back
monument WOOD * A tract of land with trees, sometimes acting as a boundary or barrier, usually smaller and less wild than a forest. back
monument CHAPEL * A freestanding building, or a room or recess serving as a place of Christian worship in a church or other building. Use more specific type where known. back
monument WALL * An enclosing structure composed of bricks, stones or similar materials, laid in courses. Use specific type where known. back

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