Firth Park Methodist Church, Adjoining Meeting Room And Boundary Wall

The Firth Park Methodist Church, along with its adjoining meeting room and boundary wall, was built in 1911. Designed by FW Chapman and J Mansell Jenkinson, it is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs, featuring two gable and a side wall stack. The architectural style is Perpendicular Revival.

The church’s plan includes a chancel, vestry, transepts, a nave with west towers, and a west porch. The exterior shows a plinth, sillband, string courses, and curved wrought-iron gutter brackets. The single-bay chancel features a traceried three-light pointed arch window to the east, and a two-story porch and vestry with a coped parapet to the north. A flat-headed four-light mullioned window sits above a slightly projecting porch with a Tudor arched ashlar doorcase and double doors. The north transept has a coped gable and flanking buttresses, with two traceried three-light pointed arch windows. The south transept is plainer, featuring two windows and a corridor leading to the meeting room, with a board door and a four-centred arch. The meeting room's west gable has a three-light mullioned window, while the south side has two two-light windows. The buttressed nave has coped gables and an octagonal wooden bell turret topped with an octagonal lead spire. The nave’s west end has a wide seven-light pointed arch window with panel tracery and a hoodmould. Octagonal corner towers flank the west end, rising in three stages with string courses, a crenellated parapet, and a set-back octagonal lead spire. The ground stage of the north tower has a single window. A single-story canted west porch has a string course and coped parapet, a central ashlar doorcase with two Tudor arched doors, and above, an inscribed panel stating "United Methodist Congregation, AD 1911," enclosed in a label mould. Canted five-light flat-headed windows are on either side.

The interior features a panelled dado and a ceiling dating from around 1980. The east end contains a partly covered moulded arch flanked by half-glazed doors, and a triple lancet with patterned stained glass. The transepts feature moulded double arches with octagonal columns. The nave’s features include corbels, a wall plate with fleurons, patterned stained glass, and glazed double doors at the rear. The entrance hall has half-glazed wooden screens and doors. Original fittings include a traceried octagonal panelled wooden pulpit, altar rail, organ case, and benches with shaped ends. Memorials include a bronze foundation plaque and wooden panel war memorials from 1918 and 1945.

The boundary wall, around 80 meters long, is constructed of coursed squared stone and brick with ashlar dressings, a chamfered plinth and caps to intermediate piers. An incomplete wrought-iron railing is present along with two pairs of brick gate piers featuring wrought-iron gates.