Trinity Methodist Church

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SK48SW CHAPEL STREET, Woodhouse 784-1/11/918 (South East side) Trinity Methodist Church

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Methodist church. Dated 1878. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof with coped gables and single gable stack. Romanesque style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3 x 4 windows. Facing gable has projecting centre with clasping buttresses topped with pinnacles, and moulded open pediment with pedestal. Venetian window with impost band, plate tracery and hoodmoulds. Above, round window with hoodmould, flanked by inscribed tablets. Below, round-arched double doorway with impost band and hoodmould, with fielded 4-panel double doors and fanlights. On either side, a round-arched window. Each return of the central projection has a round-arched window with hoodmould, and pierced parapet. Below, in the return angle, a round cornered hipped projection with pierced balustrades and 3 small round-arched windows with hoodmoulds. Side bays have each a single round-arched window with hoodmould. North and south sides have dentilled cornices and bays divided by pilaster buttresses. Towards the front, a clasping buttress topped with a pinnacle. South side has on each floor, 4 double round-arched margin glazed windows. North side has similar fenestration, with the ground floor east window replaced by a round-arched door with 4 fielded panels and fanlight, flanked to left by a sash with flat head and overlight, and to right by a round-headed sash. Both have margin glazing. INTERIOR: largely unaltered. Has matchboard dado on each floor and coved cross beam plaster ceiling with foliage corbels and bosses. At the front, two 4-panel doors. At the rear, 2 half-glazed double doors. Round cornered panelled wooden gallery on round cast-iron columns with Ionic capitals, has music stands at east end, and 2-tower organ case. Panelled glazed screens and doors. Entrance hall has cross beams with foliage corbels and 2 glazed screens with sidelights and round-arched overlights. At each end, a wooden winder stair with turned balusters and ramped handrail. FITTINGS include bow fronted pine pulpit with curved pierced balustrades, on 3 wooden twist columns, flanked by stairs with turned balusters. C20 communion table and lectern. Bow fronted rail to platform. Box pews with doors on ground floor, benches with shaped ends on gallery. Memorials include a wall mounted marble headstone, c1916, and a similar tablet to the Hardcastle family.

Listing NGR: SK4244280951