Kingston Wesleyan Methodist Church

The Kingston Wesleyan Methodist Church, located on Holderness Road in Kingston upon Hull, was built in 1913 by Runton & Barry of Hull. Later alterations and additions occurred in the mid and late 20th century. The building is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings, and has a hipped roof covered in plain tiles, featuring two large coped side wall stacks. It is designed in an 18th-century Domestic Revival style.

The church has a plinth, a modillion eaves cornice, and a coped balustrade with pedestals. It is two storeys high, with a clerestory to the main block, and features a seven-bay by seven-bay facade. The windows are glazing bar sashes, with brick flat arches and keystones to those on the front. A projecting centrepiece, beneath a steep-pitched dentillated pediment, has a two-storey, coved, round-arched recess with imposts and a bracket keystone, supporting an oval datestone with a Baroque surround. There’s a round-arched stair window at the centre of the upper level, and below it, a pair of panelled doors with a plain corniced surround; above the doors is a panel, formerly inscribed. The first floor has three twelve-pane windows on each side. Below are three fifteen-pane windows on either side. The returns have a projecting bay to the left, with a glazing bar sash above and a recessed double door below. The main block has six twelve-pane sashes on each floor on either side, and a string course between floors. The right side has a late 20th-century single-storey porch at the rear.

The interior features a segment-arched beamed ceiling to the main space, with a panelled gallery on three sides, supported by wooden brackets with square posts at the canted corners. At the front is a full-width panelled screen and gallery, with a projecting central pulpit flanked by a rail with wooden columns. A pair of half-glazed doors are positioned on either side. At the rear end are a pair of doors on either side, each with round glazed lights. Five three-panel doors are located on either side of the main space. The gallery itself has a pair of similar part-glazed doors at the rear, and five three-panel doors on both sides. A single door is positioned to the left front. Above, six five-light wood mullioned windows are placed on each side. The transverse entrance lobby is characterised by moulded cornices and round arches, with a pair of half-glazed doors incorporating lattice overlights at either end. Six three-panel doors lead to meeting rooms. The front stairwell contains a Y-plan concrete staircase with a landing, wrought-iron balustrade and a ramped handrail. A patterned stained-glass stair window is present. Underneath the stairs are a pair of doors with round glazed lights. Interior fittings include panelled softwood benches with coped shaped ends. The staircase, and some of the fittings, were relocated from Witham Methodist Church in the 1950s. Originally intended as a Sunday School, the building served as a church after the First World War prevented the original church’s construction.