Alderley Edge Methodist Church And Church Hall

Alderley Edge Methodist Church and Church Hall was built in 1863 by Hayley and Sons. It features hammer-dressed buff sandstone with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof that is stone-coped. The building includes a nave, two side chapels, and a south-west tower with the Church Hall located behind it. The front of the church, which faces the road, is two storeys high and has a four-light window with a continuous label mould underneath, as well as a sharply pointed four-light window that includes a rose and cusped tracery.

The three-stage tower on the right has a two-light lancet window at the bottom and a single lancet window above, both supported by colonnettes, with dog tooth work on the jambs. The third stage features two-light louvred bell openings, and the tower is topped with a broached spire that has lucarnes. On the sides of the nave, there are three gabled two-light windows with septfoil or octofoil upper tracery, while the projecting chapel has a large rose window. The Church Hall at the rear has simpler windows.

Inside, a door leads into a porch beneath the west gallery, which has a line of trefoil-headed windows. The gallery jetties forward and features coving. The nave roof is supported by trusses with arch-braced principals on stone corbels, along with collar and kingpost supports. A pointed chancel arch rests on short marble colonnettes, with carved foliage on the capitals; the corbels are open to the south and closed to the north. There is a heavy pine pulpit and lectern adorned with trefoil-headed panels on colonnettes. The organ, built by A Young and Sons of Manchester in 1881, is also part of the interior. Notably, the church houses a cast-iron bell, which is said to be one of only two in the country.