Long Street Methodist Church Long Street Methodist Sunday School

This is a Wesleyan (now Methodist) Chapel and Sunday school, along with a gateway and associated buildings, dating to 1899. It was designed by Edgar Wood in a Free Gothic style, incorporating Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau details. The buildings are arranged around a garden courtyard, accessible from Long Street through arched gateways.

The church is constructed of header bond brick, rendered in places, with stone dressings and a graduated stone slate roof. The west end of the church, facing the road, features an ashlar plinth, clasping buttresses, and a coped gable with kneelers and a finial that rises like a keystone above the five-light west window. The windows have original tracery based on Gothic designs, with porches to the left and right, the left one featuring a transomed canted bay window. The interior has six bays with aisles, three-light aisle windows, and paired lancet clerestory windows. A battered buttress separates the nave from the three-bay chancel, which has two-light windows and a five-light east window.

The courtyard is enclosed by one and two-storey buildings characterized by various coped gables, battered buttresses, leaded casement windows, original doors, and a canted bay window rising above eaves level. Cast-iron gates are set within stone archways.

The church interior has brick-faced walls and features octagonal columns that transition directly into chamfered nave arcade arches. The roof is supported by alternating hammer-beam and scissor-braced trusses. The circular stone pulpit is supported by shafts resembling Romanesque columns, featuring a frieze of carved rose blooms and leaves. An angel supports the book rest. The font stands on a tapering square plinth with a bronze figure by Stirling Lee recessed into the front. Wood also designed the stalls, pews, doors with stained glass panels, two Art Nouveau sanctuary chairs, and even the kneelers. Later additions include sanctuary panelling, the organ, and side chapel furnishings. Original features remain throughout, including the garden layout in the courtyard, although the flower beds have been filled in.