Wesley Southbank Road Methodist Church

SOUTHPORT

SD31NW SOUTHBANK ROAD 664-1/1/204 (North West side) 20/02/98 Wesley Southbank Road Methodist Church

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Methodist church. 1888. Glazed red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. STYLE: Romanesque style. PLAN: conventional east-west axis reversed. Nave with octagonal tower at south-east corner embraced by porch on east side and apse on south side, north and south transepts, short chancel. EXTERIOR: the gabled east facade of the nave, framed by straight buttresses with saddleback coping, has tall round-headed lancet windows divided 1:2:1 by pilaster strips. Carved panels below the central pair of windows and an oculus in the gable above them. To the left is a gabled porch with a large round-headed open arch to the front and a smaller one in each side, all these linked by clustered shafts with carved capitals. Rising behind the porch is a narrow octagonal tower which has moulded ribs to the angles, a string course defining an upper stage with a small round-headed window in each side, a slightly-oversailing parapet, an octagonal belfry stage with small mullioned 2-light openings below taller round-headed belfry louvres, and a steep octagonal roof with a finial. Attached to the south side of the tower is a semicircular apse with narrow round-headed windows arranged as an arcade with shafts at the angles, a simplified Lombard frieze, coped parapet and semi-conical lead roof. The side walls of the nave and the transepts have narrow round-headed windows, those in the gable-walls of the transepts paired. INTERIOR: includes stained glass.

Listing NGR: SD3431316274