Kingston Wesleyan Methodist Church

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA13SW HOLDERNESS ROAD 680-1/5/202 (South East side) Kingston Wesleyan Methodist Church

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Methodist Church. Dated 1913, by Runton & Barry of Hull. Mid and late C20 alterations and additions. Brick with ashlar dressings and hipped plain tile roof with 2 large coped side wall stacks. C18 Domestic Revival style. Plinth, modillion eaves cornice, coped balustrade with pedestals. 2 storeys, with clerestorey to main block; 7x7 windows. Windows are glazing bar sashes, those to the front with brick flat arches and keystones. Projecting centre under steep-pitched dentillated pediment, has a 2-storey coved round-arched recess with imposts and bracket keystone carrying an oval datestone with Baroque surround. Round-arched central stair window and below, a pair of panelled doors with plain corniced surround and above, a panel, formerly inscribed. On the first floor, three 12-pane windows on either side. Below, three 15-pane windows on either side. Returns have a projecting bay to left, with a glazing bar sash above and a recessed double door below. Main block has on either side six 12-pane sashes on each floor, and a string course between floors. Right side has at the rear a late C20 single-storey porch. INTERIOR has a segment-arched beamed ceiling to the main space, with a panelled gallery on 3 sides, carried on wooden brackets with square posts at the canted corners. At the front, a full-width panelled screen and gallery, with projecting central pulpit flanked by a rail with wooden columns. On either side, a pair of half-glazed doors. At the far end, a pair of doors on either side, with round glazed lights. On either side, five 3-panel doors. On the gallery, a pair of similar part-glazed doors at the rear, and on either side, five 3-panel doors. At the front, a single door to left. Above, six five-light wood mullioned windows on each side. Transverse entrance lobby has moulded cornices and round arches. At either end, a pair of half-glazed doors with lattice overlights. Six 3-panel doors to meeting rooms. Front stairwell has a Y-plan concrete staircase with landing, wrought-iron balustrade and ramped handrail. Patterned stained-glass stair window. Under the stairs, a pair of doors with round glazed lights. Fittings include panelled softwood benches with coped shaped ends. The staircase, and some of the fittings, were resited from Witham Methodist Church in the 1950s. This building was originally intended as a Sunday School, and became a church when the First World War prevented the church being built.

Listing NGR: TA1318531470