Methodist Church - Higham-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire - Methodist Churches on Waymarking.com

A small Methodist chapel on Main Street, Higham-on-the-Hill. It was converted from the house previously known as 'the house that Jack built'.

"The Methodist Chapel (Grade ll Listed) occupies a building previously known as the house that Jack built. The deeds of this property go back to 1838 when Jack Brown built it with bricks he brought by hand cart from Wilnecote, 10 miles away. The cast iron window frames were carried on his back 42 miles from Birmingham. He worked on the house for 14 years but never finished it, the roof being added by the parish. Although the building appears to be two houses with two front doors, two rear doors and two internal staircases, it has always been one house. It was purchased in 1959 and converted into the Methodist Chapel."

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"Methodist church. Mid-C19. Red brick with purple brick plinth, pilaster quoins, window and door dressings and hood moulds, and dentilled moulded cornice on corbel brackets. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys and garret. 2 window front, shifted slightly to the left; Gothic-glazed casements in cast iron, in dressed round-arched surrounds with key blocks and hood moulds. 2 doorways to right of each window bay, that to the left blocked, and that to the right with 4-panelled door. Round arched surrounds to both doorways both containing decorated fanlights and both with steeply gabled hoods topped by roll-mouldings with inscribed crosses. Interior: very small church on ground floor."

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Active church?: Yes Year Built: 1838 Service times: Every Sunday at 10.30am Website: [Web Link]

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