Grove Methodist Church

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SE 23 NW 8/154

HORSFORTH TOWN STREET LS18 (east side) Grove Methodist Church

(Formerly listed as Wesleyan Chapel and Old Barn)

30.9.1975

GV II

Methodist Church.Dated 1867 on porch. Coursed rock-faced sandstone, Welsh slate roofs. Gothic style. Nave on north-south axis, with north chancel, east and west transepts, and unususal external porch-cum-stair turret at south-west corner. Prominent porch, treated as a tower, of elongated hexagonal plan on axis parallel to church, has coupled two-centred-arched doorways (entrance to left, gallery staircase to right), both with shafts which have stiff-leaf capitals, all within a slightly projected gabled surround containing a foliated medallion with monogrammed date; steeply-pitched saddle-back roof with ornamental wrought-iron cresting on the ridge. Four-bay nave has two-centred-arched three-light plate-traceried windows (three on west side, four on east side), and in the south gable a large plate-traceried "west" window of five lights with a multifoil in the head. Transepts each have five triangular-headed lancets at ground floor, and a large plate-traceried circular window above. Steeply-pitched roof.

Interior: gallery at south end; arch-braced hammer-beam roof.

Listing NGR: SE2371237912