Methodist Church

The Methodist Church, located on Market Place in Castle Donington, was constructed in 1905, with later 20th-century additions to the rear. It is built of red brick with ashlar dressings, a slate roof, and terracotta ridge pieces.

The building has a nave with aisles and transepts, and the liturgical east end accommodates the organ. The main north front, facing the Market Place, features a pair of central doorways with pointed arches, plain gables, double plank doors with ornate iron hinges, and stone tympanums above. A large, seven-light pointed arch window with major mullions sits above the doorways, with foliate bosses at the terminations of the three central lights and a moulded hood with a central foliate boss. To the right is a two-story square projection with graduated lancet windows and, above, two taller lancets. To the left is a square tower topped with a spire. The tower's ground floor has a segment-headed doorway in a moulded ashlar surround, and above, a pair of lancets. A lean-to on the left return has a flat-headed three-light window with tracery, above a circular window with tracery and hood. The tower’s third stage has bell openings with stone tracery and wooden louvres, topped by octagonal stone pinnacles, a pierced parapet, and a small central pinnacle. The octagonal stone spire has alternate lucarnes. The side facades feature two plain lancets to each bay on each floor, with brick buttresses between. The transepts have three lancets on the ground floor and three graduated lancets above.

Inside, the church has an entrance lobby with glazed screens. Fitted wooden pews and dado panelling line the ground floor, with a U-shaped gallery above supported by painted iron columns with foliate capitals. The galleries have panelled fronts decorated with quatrefoils and raking seating with pews. The timber roof is supported by wooden corbels. A wooden altar-rail surrounds a raised space for the communion table, with a large central reading desk and stairs on either side. A choir gallery with pews and the organ are located behind the reading desk. Windows throughout the church have Art Nouveau-style stained glass.

The church is recognised as a handsome and unusually complete example of an Edwardian Methodist church. It features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.