12 Market Street, (formerly United Methodist Free Church)

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SE 3320 3V 2/196

MARKET STREET (West Side) No 12

(Formerly listed as Sorting Office (formerly Post Office))

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Former Nonconformist chapel, 1858 for the United Methodist Free Church, architect James Simpson of Leeds. Sold to the Post Office 1935, converted into a nightclub early C21.

This is a large, classical building with a pedimented five-bay front onto Market Street. Built of red brick with ashlar quoins and dressings, the frontage has four giant Corinthian order pilasters supporting an entablature and the pediment. At first floor, set between the pilasters, are three windows with segmental heads with keystoned architraves rising from an impost stringcourse. To the ground floor there is a central window with a plain architrave and two flanking doorways with segmental pediments, one doorway reduced to a window. The south side elevation (to Albion Court) is of six bays with tall segmental-headed windows to the first floor, similar to the front, and low sash windows with glazing bars below.

Listing NGR: SE3309020659