Lytham Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Fylde local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1993. Church. 4 related planning applications.
Lytham Methodist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- sunken-soffit-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fylde
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1993
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a Methodist church dated 1868, with alterations around 1900 and internal restoration in 1963. It is constructed with a brick core and a sandstone ashlar facade, incorporating painted stucco, under a slate roof. The building is rectangular, oriented perpendicularly to the street, and includes an apse at the west end flanked by a vestry and organ chamber.
The church is in a Classical style. It is two storeys and five bays, symmetrical in design, featuring a giant Corinthian order that forms pilasters for the slightly projecting outer bays, which contain staircases. A three-bay colonnaded screen forms a recessed porch at the centre, accessible by six steps, and is topped by a moulded entablature with dentils, modillions, a balustraded parapet over the centre, and Baroque upstands over the outer bays, finished with urns.
The interior, which was restored and slightly altered after experiencing dry rot in 1963, features giant Corinthian pilasters with a simplified entablature, replacing a former prominent cornice. The fifth bay is wider and contains a round-headed blank arch housing a Venetian window. A dome formerly covered the centre of this bay. There is a gallery at the east end. The stuccoed front facade has a 20th-century canted porch in the centre, with a large rectangular stone plaque inscribed "WESLEY CHAPEL/ 1868". This plaque is flanked by windows with shouldered architraves and triple keystones at ground floor, and round-headed windows with keyed and shouldered architraves at the first floor. The outer bays have windows with pedimented architraves at ground floor, and round-headed windows with keyed architraves and run-out imposts at first floor. All windows have early 20th-century joinery and stained glass. The first bay of each side wall is similar to the front, but with coupled round-headed windows at first floor. The south side, in red brick, consists of five bays with pilasters and later additions to the last two bays. The north side is largely hidden by later additions, including a link to the attached Lecture Hall.
The church forms a group with the adjacent Methodist Lecture Hall.
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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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