Wesley Southbank Road Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1998. Church. 1 related planning application.
Wesley Southbank Road Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- patient-bracket-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1998
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wesley Southbank Road Methodist Church is a Methodist church built in 1888. It is constructed of glazed red brick with sandstone dressings and features a slate roof. The church is designed in the Romanesque style and has a conventional east-west axis that is reversed. The layout includes a nave with an octagonal tower at the southeast corner, which is embraced by a porch on the east side and an apse on the south side, along with north and south transepts and a short chancel.
The exterior showcases a gabled east facade of the nave, framed by straight buttresses with saddleback coping. This facade has tall round-headed lancet windows arranged in a 1:2:1 pattern, separated by pilaster strips, with carved panels below the central pair of windows and an oculus in the gable above them. To the left, there is a gabled porch featuring a large round-headed open arch at the front and smaller arches on each side, all supported by clustered shafts with carved capitals. Behind the porch rises a narrow octagonal tower, which has moulded ribs at the angles, a string course that defines an upper stage with small round-headed windows on 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 topped with a finial. Attached to the south side of the tower is a semicircular apse with narrow round-headed windows arranged in an arcade, featuring shafts at the angles, a simplified Lombard frieze, a coped parapet, and a semi-conical lead roof. The side walls of the nave and the transepts have narrow round-headed windows, with paired windows in the gable walls of the transepts.
The interior includes stained glass.
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