Lindley Methodist Church

Lindley Methodist Church, built in 1867, with a chancel, vestry, and "north-east" transept designed by the Manchester architect Edgar Wood and constructed in 1895, stands on East Street, Lindley. The building is of hammer-dressed stone with a pitched slate roof. It is a hall church, featuring a "west" transept surmounted by a low tower with a pyramidal slate roof and a finial on the "south" side. The church comprises a 6-bay nave. Buttresses are present, with gabled tops at the west end. The "west" end is two stories high, and includes a string at eaves level. The first floor has windows with Geometrical bar tracery, including a 4-light window to the nave and 2-light windows to the tower, with oculi above each. The ground floor features a central 2-centred door with a hoodmould, moulded surround and plate cusps, two pointed lancets with Geometrical plate tracery, and two blocked doors on either side, each with a segment-shaped Caernarvon lintel and a 2-centred moulded relieving arch with a hoodmould. The aisle windows contain transoms and bar tracery. The "east" window has late 19th century Decorated bar tracery and incorporates a reset date stone from the original 1795 church, inscribed with lettering characteristic of each period: “The Wesleyan Church. Anno Domini 1795. Re-erected 1867. Chancel 1895.” Edgar Wood had married into the Sykes family of Lindley, who were patrons of the church.