Chapeltown Methodist Church

This is a former Methodist church, now a private dwelling, built in 1866 by architect James Wilson of Bath. It is constructed of coursed, dressed sandstone with flush ashlar bands, and has Welsh slate roofs. The building is in the Gothic Revival style and features geometric tracery.

The plan includes a four-bay nave and a shallow apsidal chancel, with north and south transepts at the west end, and an east tower with a stair turret on the north side, set at an angle with the nave. The building now incorporates an inserted floor at both the east and west ends of the nave, linked by a spine walkway accessible by a spiral staircase at the west end of the nave; the transepts also now contain first-floor bedrooms.

The east tower is square and consists of three stages, with a plinth featuring moulded coping and tall, slightly-set-back buttresses defining the quoined corners. A pointed arch doorway on the east elevation has timber double doors with decorative iron strap hinges. Above the doorway is a clock with a pointed hood mould, crockets, and head stops. An offset band sits beneath the second stage, which has two-light, cusped and cinquefoil louvres. Large, dragon-shaped gargoyles are linked by an indented cornice beneath octagonal corner turrets, which are connected by an arcaded balustrade. The nave features a coursed rubblestone plinth and a moulded eaves course, with a steep slate roof, small triangular vents, and modern skylights. Diagonal corner buttresses are present at the east end, and are accompanied by offset buttresses dividing each bay, where two-light, cusped and quatrefoil windows are located. The transepts are similar in style, with a central doorway featuring a shouldered lintel beneath a decorative wallstone panel within a pointed arch. Both transepts contain a recessed rose window incorporating eight quatrefoils and a central octofoil. Gable copings are square-cut. The north transept at the west end has external steps leading to a former transept gallery. The chancel features a shallow, apsidal projection with a chamfered plinth and three two-light windows. The west end of the nave has a coped gable and a short decorative end finial.

The interior of the nave features a plaster ceiling with squared panels of timber ribs and arched braces rising from stone corbels. The shallow, apsidal chancel also has timber ribs rising from stone corbels; the central panel is painted with the symbol IHS (Jesus Christ), with a trefoil in the flanking panels. The windows have plain glass panes with leaded heads and quatrefoils incorporating decorative coloured glass; the two rose windows contain geometric, leaded lights of plain glass.