Elim Pentecostal Church Adjoining Sunday School And Boundary Wall

Elim Pentecostal Church with adjoining Sunday School and boundary wall, built 1897-99, designed by WH Bingley. The church is constructed in brick with ashlar dressings and features gabled and hipped slate roofs with single ridge and single gable stacks.

The main church building comprises a nave with clerestorey, aisles, transepts, north-west and south-west porches, and a north-west bell tower. The nave's east gable contains a cross-transomed round window, beneath which is a single-storey L-plan building. The west end has a string course and stepped sill band, with a transomed central lancet flanked by double transomed double lancets with elliptical-arched heads. Above this is a round window with cross-shaped tracery. Below are two 4-centred arched doorways with double board doors, all openings having hoodmoulds. A slim gabled buttress topped with a crocketed pinnacle stands to the right. The clerestorey features on either side 2 windows with lattice tracery and 2 triple lancets set in recesses with stepped heads. The aisles contain 4 cusped triple lancets in flat-headed openings. The north transept has a transomed triple lancet to the north and transomed double lancet to the west. The canted two-storey south-west porch has a pointed-arched doorway with hoodmould on its west side and above it a square window with lozenge tracery, with a single lancet to its right. The similar but lower north-west porch has 3 single lancets.

The octagonal south-west tower stands in three stages. Its blind square base has broaches. The second stage features short gabled buttresses and a single small window on four sides. The bell stage has brick and stone bands with 8 small lancet openings with crocketed gables. The squat octagonal spire above has a crenellated base and finial.

The adjoining Sunday School to the left is single-storey with a cross plan and hipped and gabled roof topped with an open bell turret with square dome and finial. The coped west gable has a central gabled buttress flanked by single stone mullioned cross casements, with a quatrefoil in a circle above. The left return has a single window. The north wing has a canted end with buttresses and 3 stone mullioned cross casements; its left return has a single casement and a wooden cross casement. The higher east gable has 2 segment-headed wooden cross casements. Outside, a brick boundary wall and wrought-iron railing with ashlar coping to the wall and pedestals and 2 pairs of gatepiers with billeted caps enclose the property. Two pairs of wrought-iron gates provide access.

The interior of the nave features an arch-braced roof with ceiling and tie beams, wall shafts and struts with traceried panels. Perpendicular style arcades of 6 bays span the space, with brick arches, stone intrados and springing, and round granite columns with octagonal stone bases. A moulded sill band runs beneath the clerestorey windows. The east end displays a traceried round window and double lancets to north and south. A full-width two-tower organ case occupies the east end. The west end has a panelled wooden gallery with canted corners, above which are 4 windows with stained glass. Below the gallery are pairs of half-glazed doors on either side. The aisles have lean-to roofs with brick half-arches at their east ends. Four triple lancets with depressed segmental brick heads light the aisles; two to the south-east contain stained glass dated 1873 and 1917. The north transept has double lancets to east and west, the west one transomed, the east one containing stained glass dated 1949. The north gable has a door on each side and a round window above. The south transept has a transomed double lancet to the west and 2 double lancets to the east with stained glass by Abbott & Co. of Lancaster, circa 1918. The south gable has a round window. The western entrance lobby contains 2 panelled internal porches and a single door at each end. A foundation stone dated 1898 is preserved. The apsidal-ended Sunday School features an arch-braced roof with ceiling. The north side has half-glazed screens separating the side rooms. Original fittings include matchboard benches. There is no font or pulpit. Memorials include a marble and slate tablet with sarcophagus to George Lambert dated 1816, and two mid-19th century marble and slate tablets.