Tudhoe Methodist Church

Tudhoe Methodist Church is a Primitive Methodist chapel, now serving as a Methodist chapel, with a rear schoolroom. It was built in 1870 by the miners of Tudhoe Colliery. The church is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, a plinth, and quoins, while the rear and part of the left side are made of rubble. It features a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and is designed in the Italianate style. The building is one storey high and has three bays.

The central gabled porch contains a four-panel door and a plain fanlight set in a raised stone surround, which has a dripmould on impost blocks with a round head. Above the door is an eroded flat-oval panel. The gable coping, which is stepped at the mid-slope, rests on small curved kneelers. On either side of the porch are paired sash windows that match the style of the door. The right side of the building, facing the lane, has two round-headed windows and a round window at the peak of the gable, all with plain stone surrounds. The wide roof includes a small ridge ventilator and has ball finials on the gable copings, with the left gable having mid-slope steps on small curved kneelers. There is a one-storey extension at the rear.

Inside, the church features painted plaster with painted ashlar dressings and a boarded dado. The ceiling is boarded and panelled, with cast iron ventilators. The seating consists of tiered panelled pews with Gothic-style shaped ends, and similar quadrant choir pews at the west end flank a semicircular organ wall, which has three two-centred arches under flower-stopped dripmoulds framing groups of pipes and a console. There is a panelled balustrade with a central pulpit projection, and the side steps have a ramped moulded handrail on tapered fluted newels that continue with the balustrade. A semicircular communion rail is supported by twist-and-scroll cast-iron balusters. Additionally, there is a brass memorial plaque for the First World War on the south wall beside a six-panel door leading to the Sunday School room. The church is included for its historic interest.