North Road Pentecostal Church

This is an 1838 Wesleyan Methodist chapel, later used as a Pentecostal Church, with additions from 1885-6. It is located on North Road, Preston. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with sides and rear walls of brown brick in English garden wall bond, sandstone dressings, and a slate roof.

The main building has a rectangular plan, with a porch added to the east front and a short extension to the rear. It is two storeys high, with a basement, and comprises five bays arranged symmetrically, with a three-bay pedimented central section projecting slightly. The facade features panelled corner pilasters with corniced caps, a first-floor sillband, a plain frieze, and a moulded cornice. The 1885 porch, wider than the main building, is one storey high and symmetrical, with a stone plinth, a central doorway flanked by Tuscan columns in antis, doorways in the outer bays with pilasters, stylised acanthus capitals, a continuous frieze, and balustrades with open roundels above the outer bays. Steps lead to the doorways, which are round-headed with fanlights, moulded architraves, and carved foliated spandrels, with a keystone above the centre doorway. Intermediate bays have narrow round-headed windows with similar architraves. The first floor has five round-headed windows with sill and impost bands, moulded surrounds, and leaded honeycomb glazing. Above the centre windows is a string course, a band of carved square panels, and a damaged pediment containing a stone plaque lettered "A.D. 1838". The north and south side walls feature bands at ground and first floor levels, basement windows, and round-headed windows on both upper floors, with matching glazing to the front. The rear has corner pilasters, a pedimented gable with a chimney, mostly concealed by the later addition.

Inside, a horseshoe-shaped gallery with panelled front is supported by slender cast-iron columns with Ionic capitals. A semi-elliptical-headed giant arch at the west end features fluted pilasters with decorated moulded caps, and formerly housed an orchestra gallery; it now contains the organ. The building also contains pitch-pine pews and an ornamental rostrum, all dating from 1885.