Misterton Methodist Church

The Misterton Methodist Church was built in 1878. It is constructed of red brick with blue brick and gault brick detailing, and has ashlar dressings. The church features a brick plinth, two horizontal string courses, a sill band, a moulded cornice, cogged and dentillated eaves, a stone-coped parapet and gable, and five projecting panelled pilaster caps. It is two storeys high and comprises five bays. The Romanesque style facade has a central round-headed doorway with a hood mould, keystone, and rusticated panels, supported by polished granite shafts with moulded bases and waterleaf capitals and containing a double door with a stained glass overlight. It is flanked by single gault brick pilasters with Corinthian capitals, and similar corner pilasters. Above the doorway, a central round arched opening with a hood mould contains paired round-headed fixed lights supported by three granite shafts with waterleaf capitals. Curved brackets are present at the sill band. Above this is a roundel inscribed ‘1878’, flanked by single round-headed fixed lights with bracketed sills and stone lintels. A quatrefoil opening is situated in the gable. The south side includes five two-light casements with segmental gault brick heads within recessed panels, and four similar casements above, also with round gault brick heads. To the west are three two-light and one single-light casements with segmental heads. Inside the entrance hall, single doors are positioned either side, flanking panelled curved stairs to a gallery. The interior features matchboard panelling to the dado, a deep moulded decorative cornice, and plaster foliate ceiling bosses. All windows contain patterned stained glass. At the rear, three round cast-iron columns support a curved timber gallery. At the front, a moulded coffered elliptical arch is flanked by antae with leaf capitals. A panelled screen with a part-glazed door on either side leads to further spaces, above which is an elaborate panelled organ gallery with matching organ case. The church’s fittings include a large traceried, panelled pulpit on curved brackets, flanked by curved stairs with square turned balusters. A matchboarded surround exists around the communion table, along with a communion rail also featuring square turned balusters. There are three matching chairs and plain chamfered pine pews. Memorial tablets date from 1877 and 1924.