Brown Knowl Methodist Church And Attached Sunday School

SJ 45 SE BROXTON C.P. SHERRINGTON'S LANE (West Side)

8/29 Brown Knowl Methodist Church and attached Sunday School

GV II

Methodist Church, 1913, of stone-dressed red-brown brick with pebble dashed gables and graded grey slate roofs. The Church and Sunday School form an L, with tower and vestry in its angle. In Perpendicular manner. The Church has a 5-light (ritual) west window facing road - 3 lights under a square head flanked each side by a lower pointed-arched light. The schoolroom (left) has a 6-light window in end gable, in a camber-arched recess with ogee hoodmould. Three 3-light trefoil-headed windows are in (ritual) south side of Church. The crenellated tower has traceried pebbledash panels in place of bell-openings. Double doors of oak. Mid C20 flat-roofed extension at rear. Interior: The church of 4 bays has arch-braced trusses and contemporary furnishings. Church, schoolroom and vestry are designed to communicate (for joint use) through pointed archways with folding doors. The church was built as a Primitive Methodist Chapel, near the site of one (demolished) erected in 1836, of which the datestone is in the rear gable of the present building. The site is associated with, and the burial place of, John Wedgwood (tomb q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ4954253556