Trinity Methodist Church

MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM

SD46SW MARINE ROAD WEST, Morecambe 939-1/1/57 Trinity Methodist Church

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Church. Foundation stone of meeting rooms laid 1883. Main church 1897 by Samuel Wright. Coursed squared sandstone with slate roofs. West front has tall pointed windows below central gable: 6 on the ground floor and 5 lighting the gallery. To the left is a lower 2-storey canted porch under a separate roof. It has one window on both floors to each side, and 2 windows above a central doorway. To the right of the facade is a projecting 4-stage tower. On the ground floor it has a round-headed doorway. Above is a lancet window. The 3rd stage is blind. The bell stage has lancet bell openings flanked by octagonal corner turrets with lead spirelets. The central spirelet is slated. The south wall, facing West Street, has lancet windows and 3 gables, with a 4th lower gable to the meeting rooms to the right. Interior: woodwork is of pitch pine, with gallery supported on 3 sides on fluted cast-iron columns, with similar columns at gallery level supporting arcading running east-west, with further transverse arches, which also appear to be of iron, spanning above the gallery. At the east side there is an organ at gallery level and a raised preaching desk below. Alterations in the later C20 include insertion of a part-glazed partition wall below the west gallery and a suspended ceiling to the main church.

Listing NGR: SD4234763568