THE KIRK MISSION HALL, GATEPIERS AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL - Whitehaven - List Entry

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    "Non conformist church, now redundant. Mid C18, with C19 and C20 alterations. Rubble sandstone, brought to courses, with ashlar dressings, and roughcast rendered in part, or wholly in all elevations. Welsh-slated roof, with stone copings to south-west gable....The Kirk was originally the church of Whitehaven's Scots Presbyterians before becoming a methodist house in the late C19. The building is identified as 'High Meeting' in J. Howards survey of Whitehaven of 1790. Plain gatepiers, square on plan, with oversailing caps, and rubble stone boundary wall, with saddleback coping, which encloses burial ground to south east of Kirk...."
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    Historic England
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    Link: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1263964
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    Added by: Edmund Anon
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