Woodside Methodist Sunday School And Hall

HORSFORTH OUTWOOD LANE SE 23 NE LS18 (east side) 9/143 Woodside Methodist 30.4.1982 Sunday School and Hall - II

Methodist school and attached chapel, now meeting room and hall. School early C19, chapel dated 1839 on north side; altered. Coursed squared sandstone, with roofs of slate and stone slate. L-plan, with school set back and facing road; chapel attached at right-hand end, gable to road. School: rectangular plan; single-storey, and 5 bays, symmetrical; altered doorway in the centre and 2 windows on a higher level on each side, all round-headed with imposts and keystones, the doorway now with jambs only to the upper half, the windows with raised sills and dressed heads but without jambs, and sashed, with glazing bars (arched in the upper leaf); small gutter brackets; hipped roof; similar windows in rear and at left end. Chapel has 4 larger but similar windows, dressed jambs to the 2nd, and above this window a carved stone plaque with scrolled surround, inscribed:-

"This Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was Erected by Voluntary Subscription 1839"

(Later addition to front of right-hand end not included in the item). Five similar windows in rear wall. Interiors of both parts altered.

Listing NGR: SE2508337634