Former Methodist Chapel (Now Coupe Bradbury Solicitors)

SD3627SE 621-1/6/13

LYTHAM ST ANNES, Lytham, BATH STREET (West side), Former Methodist Chapel (now Coupe Bradbury Solicitors)

(Formerly listed as Former Methodist Chapel (now Lytham Family Planning Clinic))

25/02/91

GV II

Methodist chapel, now solicitor's office. Dated 1846 on parapet; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Relatively small building on rectangular plan at right-angles to street. Debased classical style. Two storeys and 3 bays, symmetrical, with giant pilasters of brick with stone capitals, a deep stone plinth, plain stone frieze, moulded cornice, and brick parapet with central upstand containing a rectangular stone plaque inscribed "MDCCCXLVI". The central bay has a square-headed doorway (up steps) with a moulded architrave and modillioned cornice on consoles, altered double doors and a 4-pane overlight; the slightly narrower outer bays have 12-pane sashed windows with architraves which have modillioned cornices and shallow pediments. The upper floor has 4 small square windows with stone architraves, those in the centre coupled. The 3-bay side walls have 12-pane sashed windows at ground floor with stone architraves linked by a prominent sill-band, and smaller windows at 1st floor with altered glazing; and the rear gable wall has a lean-to extension. INTERIOR altered by partitioning. HISTORY: their first Nonconformist chapel built in Lytham; superseded by Park Street Chapel in 1868. Forms group with Nos 2 to 10 opposite (q.v.), and Nos 1 and 3 to the right (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD3672527104