Methodist Church Hall

SOUTHPORT

SD31NW LEYLAND ROAD 664-1/1/53 (East side) Methodist Church Hall

GV II

Methodist Sunday School and caretaker's house, now church hall. c1891; altered, with some C20 additions. Coursed sandstone rubble, slate roofs. Gothic style. Modified L-plan, consisting of large hall on east-west axis with south wing at east end and apsidal west wing to the centre of this. EXTERIOR: the gabled west front of the hall is a boldly-modelled asymmetrical composition with the roof to the right carried down to meet a set-back integral porch which has a lateral apse. The principal portion has massive buttresses (carried up to pinnacles with saddleback coping) framing a large 2-centred arched window which has a chamfered surround and is divided vertically by 2 moulded mullions treated as shafts and horizontally by a weathered sill, the lower part having windows of 2:3:2 lights with intersecting cusped tracery and the upper part having 1:2:1 tall lancet lights. To the right the porch has a slightly-projected gabled doorway chamfered in 2 orders, and projected from its south side is a 5-sided apse with weathered plinth, weathered sill, short 2-centred arched windows with quatrefoils in the heads, a parapet and hipped roof. The south side wall is now mostly covered by a C20 flat-roofed extension. South wing with a semicircular apse with a conical roof and continuous arcaded lancet fenestration in which alternate lights are blind. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with associated Leyland Road Methodist Church to south (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3489117634