Wall To South Of Methodist Church

This is a sandstone wall dating to 1786, with additions made in the 1886 by the local architect F R Wilson. It forms an L-shaped boundary, enclosing a space alongside a Methodist Church and what was formerly a manse.

The lower two courses of the wall are constructed from large sandstone blocks, the top course of which is chamfered. The upper section of the wall, added by Wilson in 1886 as part of a refurbishment, consists of a series of ornamental stone posts alternating with rows of three square sandstone panels. Each panel is pierced with a roundel containing an open quatrefoil design. The entire wall is topped with triangular coping stones. A central opening with rectangular gate piers and pyramidal coping stones exists in the eastern section, while identical stone piers mark the ends. This eastern section is attached to the Methodist Church, and the southern section was formerly attached to the manse, though it is now breached.

The north end of the wall is attached to the Grade II listed Methodist Church and forms the garden wall of the unlisted former manse. The wall forms the east and south sides of a rectangular enclosed space, with the north side defined by the church and the west side by the manse.

The wall is designated at Grade II for its ornamental design and craftsmanship, its group value in relation to the Methodist Church, and the associations with the regional architect F R Wilson, who worked with Anthony Salvin and is responsible for several other listed buildings.