Spilsby Methodist Church

TF 4066-4166 7/72

SPILSBY MARKET STREET (east side) Spilsby Methodist Church

G.V. II

Methodist chapel. 1877-8 by Charles Bell, in Geometric style. Yellow stock brick with ashlar dressings, slate roof. Gable end to street, having tall stepped gable buttresses, with central doorway up 6 steps. Double doors, with traceried circle in pointed tympanum. Double stepped arch with roll moulded bricks, gablette over. Above a 6 light Geometric traceried window and in the gable 3 stepped trefoil headed louvred lancets, and over a plate traceried circle in pointed opening. The side front has buttresses marking the 6 bays, each with 2 light windows with segmental heads and 2 light pointed windows to gallery stage. To the rear a 2 storey former caretaker's house with plain sash windows. The interior of the chapel has a continuous upper gallery on cast iron columns with floriate capitals. The wooden balustrade has narrow piers and pointed openings. The wide span roof is arch braced with quatrefoils in the spandrels, supported on carved stone corbels and tied by iron rods. The raised octagonal pulpit has a shafted pedestal, panels decorated with cut out circles and narrow stairs with turned balusters. All contemporary pews. The organ is by Foster and Andrews of Hull, dated 1878. The entrance porch has original doors and side panels, tiled floor and pair of commandment boards.

Listing NGR: TF4033966091