Tottington Methodist Church

Tottington Methodist Church, built in 1905, was designed by Arthur Brocklebank of Waterfoot. It is a building of group value. Constructed from coursed gritstone in diminishing courses with ashlar dressings, the church has a pitched roof covered in small slates, featuring a terracotta ridge cresting and two wood and lead ventilators, alongside gable copings.

The church is in a Gothic and Art Nouveau style, aligned north-south. Due to the sloping ground, the south entrance is elevated above street level, and a basement is accessed through boarded double doors with ivy-decorated strap hinges in the southeast corner. The main south entrance has board double doors set in an ashlar surround, flanked by stepped buttresses, and is topped by a three-light window with decorated tracery. Stepped buttresses mark the corners of the nave, terminating in octagonal shafts with tapering finials. Paired lancet-style windows are present on the nave, a three-light perpendicular-style window on the north side of the chancel, and a narrow north doorway is flanked by ornate railings with scrolled panels.

Inside, the nave features slim hammer-beam style roof trusses with steel tie rods. A moulded chancel arch leads to the chancel, where corbels support three shallow-arched roof trusses. Contemporary fittings include glazed double doors and side screens, brass door furniture, raked pews with doors and umbrella stands, and a south gallery. Also present are a panelled pulpit and organ case, an octagonal white marble font dedicated to Jack and Chris Hargreaves (November 1905), a memorial window to Richard Yates (funded by his employees at Spring Mill), patterned stained glass in the side windows, and an east window in memory of William Hoyle, Temperance Statistician, 1905. The chancel contains a mosaic floor, a panelled dado with a war memorial, and carved panelled choir stalls. The pulpit, choir stalls, and reredos were a gift from Mr and Mrs W Greenhalgh of Southport in remembrance of their three children. On the east wall, a tablet depicting two angels holding scrolls commemorates those who died in the First World War, and a tiled plaque featuring a figure of St George lists those who fought in the Second.