Methodist Church

The building is a Methodist church constructed between 1878 and 1880. It is built of coursed sandstone rubble with slate roofs and is designed in the Early English style. The church comprises a nave with wide north and south transepts, a short chancel, a south-west porch-steeple, and a north-west porch.

The west front is gabled, with string courses on three levels and a square corner pilaster terminating in a small turret with a pyramidal roof. A tall tripartite west window features three lancet lights, each subdivided by a slender mullion into two smaller lancet lights with a moulded surround. A steeply-gabled porch projects from the angle to the left, with a two-centred arched doorway chamfered in two orders, a weathered band, pierced trefoils, a set-back gable with an oculus, raised coping, and a finial. A steeple is positioned to the right, also with a similar doorway and weathered band, a tall set-back upper stage with angle buttresses, a two-light window, a very tall belfry stage with square corner pinnacles, traceried and louvred two-light lancets under steeply-pitched gablets, and an octagonal spire rising to a height of 150 feet. The south side of the steeple has a gabled projection with a two-light window flanked by buttresses.

The nave is buttressed and has two large, two-centred arched, three-light windows. Each transept incorporates a square turret on its west side, rising above eaves level, with a lancet window on each exposed side and a pyramidal roof. A lean-to porch is in the angle with the turret, featuring a two-centred arched doorway and a two-light window above. The walls of the transepts are buttressed and have three lancet windows at ground floor, and a large two-centred arched window of four lancet lights above. The chancel features a plate-traceried rose window.

The interior has an arch-braced wooden roof and galleries at the west end and in both transepts. The chancel includes a mosaic floor and a painted nine-panelled reredos, where panels depicting fig, wheat, vine, and olive alternate with the Commandments and the Lord’s Prayer, all beneath a coved arcaded canopy.