Trinity Methodist Church

MIRFIELD UD HUDDERSFIELD ROAD SE 21 NW (Mirfield)

5/125 Trinity Methodist Church

G.V. II

Large Methodist Chapel. Dated 1877. Ashlar front with rock-faced sides. Hipped slate roof. 2 storeys. 5-bay gabled front, 6-bay sides. At the front the central 3 bays break forward and are surmounted by open pediment with bracketed cornice. Bold eaves cornice to flanking bays. Corners and central break marked by giant pilasters with highly elaborate foliated capitals. 1st floor cornice. 3 central round-arched doorways up 7 steps with flanking iron rail on dwarf wall. Double doors with 6 fielded panels and semi-circular fanlights. Enriched impost band with foliage, fruit and birds. Above is a triple group of round arched windows with square headed lights, blind tympana and colonnettes with enriched capitals. Elongated and enriched keystones. Above is raised capitals is TRINITY 1877 CHURCH. Flanking bays have round-arched windows with enriched impost band. Round-arched windows to side elevations, and square-headed basement windows. Marginal glazing. Enrichments are particularly elaborate with a high standard of carving.

Interior: Horseshoe, raking gallery, with panelled front, on slender cast iron columns with foliated and floral capitals. Good organ case at front flanked by paired pilasters with elaborate foliated and floral capitals. Good large pulpit with stair to each side. Communion area in front flanked by choir stalls. Pews arranged to focus on pulpit. Ceiling divided into large panels with centre roses and elaborate plaster ribs. Dentilled and bracketed'cornice.

A. R. Bielby, Churches & Chapels of Kirklees, 1974.

Listing NGR: SE2046019745