Talbot Lane Methodist Church

SK4292 ROTHERHAM SHIP HILL (west side) 9/66 Talbot Lane Methodist Church - II Church. 1903 by Morley and Son of Bradford (Rotherham Advertiser). Thinly- coursed sandstone, ashlar dressings and spire, graduated slate roof. Reversed orientation with entrances in east gable having tower with spire to left and apsidal stair projection to right; 4-bay nave with aisles and transepts, apsidal chancel with additions to each side, meeting room beneath. Gothic Revival, geometrical tracery. Tower: 3 stages. Angle buttresses with ashlar offsets and gablets. Door in east side with hoodmould. 2 string courses beneath 2nd stage which has 2 tall lancets. 3rd stage has blind panel of 4 cusped openings and embattled band beneath tall, 2-light, window with leaded lights and 2 orders of colonnettes in the jambs. Buttresses rise as attached octagonal turrets with crocketed spirelets to flank crocketed gable above window. Octagonal, ashlar, spire with 2 string courses below and above lucarnes, weathervane. Entrance gable set back to right has angle buttress to right rising as octagonal pinnacle. Paired doorways each in gabled projection flanked by pinnacled buttresses and with granite colonnettes to pointed arches. Double doors with cusped-panel overlights, gables with Tudor-flower ornament and finials. 2 string courses continue from tower beneath 5-light window with 2 king mullions and hoodmould. Stepped 4-light window to main gable has projecting sill with carved ends and shared hoodmould. Gable copings with finial. Lower 2-storey apsidal projection to right has door with hoodmould and string course with buttress rising from it between small 2-light windows; ashlar parapet with ogee-headed panels. Side walls of nave have buttresses between bays and string courses below and above paired aisle windows. 3-light gallery windows with hoodmoulds. Transepts have two 2-light windows beneath 4-light gallery windows. Chancel: 4-light altar window flanked by angled single lights. Tower to stair projection on north side. Interior: well preserved. Gallery on 3 sides of nave continuous across transepts, cast-iron columns. Coved ceiling to side galleries. Bow-string trusses to nave. Pine pews and gallery balustrade. Art Nouveau electroliers to body of nave, matching fittings to aisles and galleries. Oak font and pulpit. Oak chancel fittings with traceried panelling to rear of choir stalls. Altar window by S. Evans of Smethick (1903). Meeting room below chancel has 2 Art Nouveau fireplaces. Replaces church destroyed by fire in 1901. Details of competition for the design in Rotherham Advertiser, May 3rd, 1902, p5.

Listing NGR: SK4285992620