Trinity Methodist Church

Trinity Methodist Church is a Methodist church built around 1899 by W.H. Dinsley from Chorley, Lancashire. The church features an ashlar facade with hammer-dressed sandstone on the sides and rear, topped by a Welsh blue-slate roof and a copper-covered dome on the tower. It is designed in a classical style.

The building has two storeys and a five-bay symmetrical facade. The central three bays are highlighted by a pedimented Corinthian portico in antis, flanked by single bays framed by giant Corinthian pilasters and a full entablature. The central bays include semicircular-arched windows and a doorway with a keystone and impost. The pediment has a deeply-moulded surround and a richly-carved tympanum featuring a wreathed oval ventilator, topped with a ball finial. The outer bays have two small ground-floor windows with brackets, a pulvinated frieze, and triangular pediments, as well as single taller windows above with segmental pediments.

The left-hand bay rises as a tower, supported by short corner pilasters that carry brackets at the curved angles. Each face of the tower features a semicircular-arched moulded recess, with clock faces on two sides, each topped by triangular pediments. Above, there is a low attic with three plain rectangular openings on each side, capped by a copper ogee roof with a weathervane. The left and right returns consist of seven bays, with the first bays in ashlar matching the front, accompanied by Corinthian pilasters on either side. The remaining bays are slightly set back, featuring plainer square-headed windows with a cornice (now blocked) and semicircular-arched windows above with impost-strings. A triangular pediment is present above the outer rear bays.

Inside, the church has a U-shaped gallery supported by cast-iron columns and raked bench seating. On either side of the front window, there are well-crafted symmetrical organ cases. The ceiling is ribbed and panelled in plaster. However, some good fittings are at risk of removal, as noted during the last survey.