Spa Lane Methodist Church

Spa Lane Methodist Church is a Methodist church built in 1846 by Messrs. Atkinson of York. It is constructed from ashlar magnesian limestone and features a Welsh slate roof. The building has two storeys with a half basement and is arranged in three by four bays, with a shorter, narrower wing at the rear center. Designed in a simple Italianate style, the church has a gabled front with a plinth and central steps leading to a projecting ashlar sandstone doorcase. This doorcase includes a panelled double door set in an eared architrave beneath a stone transom and plain fanlight, flanked by fielded-panel pilasters, an archivolt with a keystone, and a peaked cornice.

On either side of the entrance, there are small round-headed casements with architraves that have acroteria. The first floor features a moulded sill band supporting a stepped three-light window with margin-glazed casements in round-headed architraves, with the central light adorned with an acroterion. The gable has a barge board. At the rear, the lower wing contains a window with three round-headed lights under a rusticated relieving arch, and a gable oculus with 'Star of David' glazing bars.

The right return has a plinth band that rises in segmental arches over four-pane basement sashes and a door on the right. The ground floor features plain casements in ashlar surrounds with rusticated, segmental-arched heads. The first floor has a sill band from the front that forms an impost band to round-headed four-pane sashes under rusticated arches, along with a moulded eaves band. The left return has a lean-to addition from 1986, but is otherwise similar to the right return.

Inside, the church retains contemporary fittings, including pitch-pine box pews and a gallery supported by fretted brackets. There is a semi-octagonal pulpit behind a bobbin-turned balustrade, with a round-arched organ recess behind it. The roof features queen-post trusses also on fretted brackets, subdivided by struts. The foundation stone was laid in November 1846, the church was dedicated in October 1847, and the £1,000 building debt was fully paid off in 1863.