Milton Street Methodist Church Hall

SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

NZ6621SW MILTON STREET, Saltburn 802-1/10/55 (North side) Milton Street Methodist Church Hall

GV II

Includes: Milton Street Methodist Church Hall EMERALD STREET Saltburn. Methodist Church Hall, originally Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. 1862-5, altered C20 by William Peachey in competition. MATERIALS: white firebricks from Pease West Brickworks, Crook, on street fronts; common brick to rear, with ashlar dressings. Grey-purple slate roof. STYLE: Gothic Revival. PLAN: ritual east is at north. EXTERIOR: continuous nave and chancel of 5 bays. Elevation to Milton Street has triple gabled shallow porch, with steps up to renewed doors in centre and glazed side lights, in arcade with `Derbyshire marble' shafts with large stiff-leaf capitals supporting moulded stone arches, the central highest, under stone-coped gables. Inscriptions 'WESLEY 1865 CHAPEL' in gable peaks. Lancet stair lights at side; triple lancets above rising into steeply pitched gable, with paired lights in gable peak. Clasping brick buttresses reduce through stone coping to octagonal stone spirelets. Elevation to Emerald Street has shallow vestry porch at left, with pent roof. 4 lancets in bays defined by buttresses; right lancet shorter, with square-headed light below. Steeply pitched roof. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: foundation stone laid by Henry Pease MP for South Durham. Part of the integral design of the Milton Street Methodist Church (qv). Included for group value. (Wilson CS: The History of Saltburn: Saltburn by Sea: 1983-: 63; Cleveland County Council Planning Department: Typed cards with extracts from Illustrated Christian Times; Industrial Archaeology Review: Spring 1980: Harrison JK and Harrison A: 142).

Listing NGR: NZ6636821471