Crookes Valley Methodist Church And School And Boundary Wall

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SK38NW CROOKESMOOR ROAD 784-1/5/231 (South East side) 28/06/73 Crookes Valley Methodist Church and School and boundary wall

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Methodist church and school, now housing a training project, with adjoining boundary wall and railing. Dated 1880, altered c1980. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. Built on a sloping site with basement rooms below the church and the school at a lower level to the east. Nave with aisles and east wing containing business rooms, transepts and west porches, and schoolroom. EXTERIOR: plinth, string courses, gabled buttresses, coped gables. 4 bay nave has octagonal turret topped with spire. On either side, a pair of through-eaves gabled dormers with 2-light pointed arch windows, flanked by single flat-headed windows. Below, 4 pairs of round-headed windows, and round-headed basement windows on the south side. West gable has 2 pairs of lancets and a round window above them. Below, central lean-to porch with moulded pointed doorway under a coped gable with finial. To left, a square 2 storey porch with pyramidal roof. Segment-headed doorway to west, and a 2-light mullioned window above to west and north. To right, a canted porch with a segmental pointed door and on each side a small 2-light window under the eaves. On the right return, a taller gabled stair turret. East wing, 3 storeys, has a double gabled north front with a central triple mullioned window flanked to left by a 3-light cross casement and to right by a 2-light mullioned window. Above, to right, a cross mullioned window. Below, a double door with overlight, flanked to left by 2 single windows and to right by 3 similar windows. Transepts have 2 pairs of round-headed lancets and above, traceried wheel windows. Segment-headed basement windows to south. Schoolroom, to south-east, has four 3-light cross mullioned windows with similar basement windows below. South gable has a panel traceried 4-light pointed arch window flanked by single lancets. Below, a 3-light window flanked by single light windows. INTERIOR: divided and refitted c1980. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, at the west end, a curved boundary wall with chamfered coping, 2 chamfered piers with octagonal pyramidal caps, and a pair of iron gates.

Listing NGR: SK3379487745