Brown Knowl Methodist Church And Attached Sunday School

Brown Knowl Methodist Church and the attached Sunday School were built in 1913. The church is constructed of stone-dressed red-brown brick with pebble dashed gables and has graded grey slate roofs. The church and Sunday School form an L-shape, with a tower and vestry located at the angle. The building is designed in a Perpendicular style.

The church features a five-light west window facing the road, which includes three lights under a square head, flanked by lower pointed-arched lights on each side. The schoolroom, located to the left, has a six-light window in the end gable set within a camber-arched recess that has an ogee hoodmould. On the south side of the church, there are three three-light trefoil-headed windows. The crenellated tower includes traceried pebbledash panels instead of traditional bell-openings, and the entrance has double oak doors. There is also a mid-20th century flat-roofed extension at the rear.

Inside, the church has four bays with arch-braced trusses and contemporary furnishings. The church, schoolroom, and vestry are designed to connect for joint use through pointed archways with folding doors. Originally, the church was built as a Primitive Methodist Chapel, near the site of an earlier chapel that was erected in 1836 and later demolished; the datestone from that chapel is incorporated into the rear gable of the current building. The site is also notable as the burial place of John Wedgwood.