Wearhead Methodist Chapel

Wearhead Methodist Chapel is a Primitive Methodist Chapel built in 1826. It features coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof with stone gable coping. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The central door, which has been renewed, is set under a round arch with voussoirs on impost blocks. Flanking the door are round-headed windows, and above them are segmental-headed windows, all with arches that have voussoirs and thin projecting stone sills. The low-pitched roof has coping at the left end and a chimney.

Inside, the chapel has a boarded dado with plastered ritual on the west wall. The panelled ceiling is diagonally boarded and features carved corner brackets in each panel, along with ceiling roses around the ventilators. A gallery runs around three sides of the interior, supported by tapered cast iron columns, and has an ornate bracketed cast iron balustrade. There is a corbelled keyed organ arch at the east end, with a panelled central pulpit flanked by a panelled screen. The communion rail is made of cord-twist balusters with ivy-leaf brackets.

Memorials inside the chapel include tablets dedicated to members of the Humble and Peart families, transferred from Lanehead chapel, as well as to the Harrison and Featherstone families, members of the congregation who entered the Primitive Methodist Ministry between 1826 and 1926, and those who died in the First World War.