York Historic Environment Record

YORK SE6051NW LITTLE STONEGATE 1112-1/28/555 (South West side) 24/06/83 No.3 GV II Ebenezer Primitive Methodist Chapel, now printing works. 1851, altered 1901. By JP Pritchett. Front of rusticated stone and white brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings; rear of orange-brown brick in English garden-wall bond; pantile roof with brick stack. EXTERIOR: semi-basement and 2 storeys; 6-bay front, outer bays breaking forward slightly. Outer bays have 4-leaf panelled folding doors beneath entablatures: windows between are 30-pane fixed lights with iron glazing bars. On first floor, outer bays have round-headed radial-glazed windows in round-arched ashlar surrounds with imposts. Remaining first floor windows and those on second floor are 12-pane sashes in fasciated architraves, with sill bands on both floors. Prominent moulded eaves cornice returned at each end. INTERIOR: staircase at right end has cast-iron balustrade of geometric panels, turned newels and ramped-up handrail. Staircase at left end re-uses C18 balusters. The Chapel was sold for a printing works in 1901. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 52; Royle E: Nonconformity in C19 York: York: 1985-: 14). Listing NGR: SE6024951982