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Church in Lancashire, England
Moor Park Methodist Church is a former Methodist church in Garstang Road, Preston , Lancashire , England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building .[ 1]
The church was built in 1861–62, and designed by Poulton and Woodman.[ 2] It was opened on 26 June 1862, and could seat about 900 people.[ 3] The church closed in 1984.[ 4] [ a]
The church is built in brick on a stone plinth , with sandstone dressings and a slate roof, and is in simplified Italianate style. It has a rectangular plan, and contains aisles . On the entrance front is a semicircular portico carried on square columns with Composite capitals . Between these are round-headed arches with keystones . At the top of the portico is a frieze and a dentilled cornice . Inside the portico are double doorways and tall windows. The portico is flanked by bays , each containing a tall narrow round-headed arch with two windows, the lower one flat-headed and the upper one round-headed. Above the portico is a pediment with three windows forming an arcade , over which is an oculus . Along the sides of the church are six bays, each with paired arches separated by mullions , and each containing windows similar to those flanking the portico. Inside the church is a horseshoe gallery carried on octagonal cast iron columns.[ 1]
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^ a b c Historic England , "Former Moor Park Methodist Church, Preston (1207287)" , National Heritage List for England , retrieved 25 May 2014
^ Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North , The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press , p. 539, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
^ Hewitson, A. (1869), Moor Park Wesleyan Methodist Church in the Town of Preston , Our Churches and Chapels, Preston: Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerks, retrieved 25 May 2014
^ Moor Park, Wesleyan Methodist, Preston , GENUKI , retrieved 25 May 2014
^ Preston Central , mosquedirectory.co.uk, retrieved 25 May 2014
^ Registered in accordance with the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (Number in Worship Register: 77163 ; Name: Jamia-Tul-Muntazar ; Address: Garstang Road, Preston ; Denomination: Muslims ; Date registered (as recorded on original certificate): 8 July 1986 ). Retrieved 9 July 2024. (Archived version of list from April 2010 ; subsequent updates ; original certificate held at The National Archives in folio RG70/155)
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