Trinity Methodist Church

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SE2233 SW 6/137

PUDSEY LS28 LOW TOWN Wesley Square (north side, off), Trinity Methodist Church

29.8.80

GV II Methodist Church. c1899 by W.H. Dinsley (Chorley, Lancs). Ashlar facade, hammer-dressed sandstone to sides and rear, Welsh blue-slate roof, copper covered dome to tower. Classical style.

Two storeys. Five-bay symmetrical facade the central three bays with pedimented Corinthian portico in antis with single flanking bays framed by giant Corinthian pilasters and with full entablature. Central bays have semicircular-arched windows and doorway with keystone and impost. Pediment has deeply-moulded surround and richly-carved tympanum with wreathed oval ventilator. Ball finial to apex. Outer bays have two small ground-floor windows with brackets, pulvinated frieze and triangular pediment and single taller window above with segmental pediment. Left-hand bay carried up as a tower with short corner pilasters carrying brackets to curved angles. To each face a semicircular-arched moulded recess. Clock faces to two sides, surmounted by triangular pediments. A low attic with three plain rectangular openings to each side and a copper ogee cap terminating in weathervane. Left and right returns of seven bays. First bays in ashlar as front, with Corinthian pilasters to either side. Other bays slightly set back with plainer windows, square-headed with cornice (blocked) with semicircular-arched windows above with impost-string. Triangular pediment above outer rear bays.

Interior: U-shaped gallery carried on cast-iron columns, raked bench seating. To either side of front window good symmetrical organ cases. Ribbed plaster panelled ceiling. Good fittings threatened with removal at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: SE2232733506