Broad Street Methodist Church And Attached Sunday School

A Methodist church and attached Sunday school were built in 1887 by F Boreham. The church is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and has Welsh slate roofs with decorative terracotta ridge tiles. It has a chamfered plinth. The main entrance front features a pair of projecting ashlar doorways, each with pointed arch surrounds supported on pilasters with banding and stiff-leaf capitals, alongside 20th-century glazed doors with quatrefoil overlights. Each doorway is topped by a decorated gable featuring carved angel kneelers and foliate finials. A band of blind pointed arches continues across the facade, punctuated by single plain lancet windows. A tall 4-light pointed arch window with rectilinear tracery, moulded brick hood, and ashlar impost band sits above, with a small ventilation lancet in the gable above. Octagonal turrets topped with stone spires flank the central section. Lower stair wings extend to either side, each featuring doorways with gabled ashlar surrounds, pilaster jambs, carved foliate heads, 19th-century plank doors with ornate iron hinges, and an ashlar parapet decorated with trefoils. Single lancets are placed above these doorways, and circular windows are situated within gables. The side facades are punctuated by eight windows arranged in a 2:4:2 pattern; the two central gables contain two tall lancets, divided at gallery level and topped with circular windows. Brick buttresses rise between these windows, each culminating in an ashlar finial. The flanking windows on either side are flat-headed and also divided at gallery level.

The interior retains almost all its original fittings, including a U-shaped wooden gallery with a panelled front supported on ornate iron columns, and corresponding columns supporting the original wooden roof. Wooden pews are still present throughout, as are a wooden reading desk and altar table. Behind a chamfered and pointed arch is the organ, housed within its own shallow gallery also with a panelled front. The windows contain simple patterned stained glass.

The Sunday school, located to the north-west, features a 4-window gabled front, arranged 1:2:1. The central two windows have tall 2-light lancets divided at first floor level by terracotta panels with ashlar tracery, linked by impost and cill bands. A circular window sits above, encased in a moulded brick surround with 4-circle ashlar tracery. The wide coped gable has carved kneelers and a finial. Single 2-light windows with ashlar mullions and segment brick heads flank the central section, linked by a flush ashlar cill band. Brick buttresses with ashlar set-offs and eroded ashlar finials mark the corners. A doorway with a moulded brick head and plank door with overlight is positioned to the left.