Lecture Hall Attached To Lytham Methodist Church

LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD3627SE PARK STREET, Lytham 621-1/6/79 (West side) Lecture Hall attached to Lytham Methodist Church

GV II

Methodist lecture hall. Dated 1901 on plaque to right. Yellow brick with sandstone ashlar dressings, hipped slate roof and lead-clad dome over entrance porch. Linear plan parallel to street, with entrance corridor to church on left. Edwardian Baroque style. Single storey on 2 levels, the main range 1:3:1 bays, symmetrical, the centre projected; and the lower entrance corridor to the left, 3 narrow bays with a projected central drum which is the porch. The hall has a high plinth, deep frieze and prominent moulded cornice; 3 tall windows with moulded architraves and elongated triple keystones rising into stylised pediments in the frieze; and in each of the set-back outer bays a stone plaque with carved cartouche and raised lettering: "WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH" to the left and "FOUNDED 1867 ENLARGED 1901" to the right. The north end wall has a large Venetian window. The entrance corridor to the left has a central segmental porch which has a wide doorway with moulded architrave including a cartouche keystone and elaborately carved segmental pediment in front of the domed roof of the drum, and small side windows. INTERIOR: Arts-and-Crafts semicircular-arched fireplace with copper hood. Included for group value with Methodist church to left.

Listing NGR: SD3653627296