Bridge Street Methodist Church

SK5461 924-1/6/16

MANSFIELD BRIDGE STREET (North side) Bridge Street Methodist Church

GV II

Methodist church. 1864. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roof. Italianate style. Plinth and eaves band. 2 storeys; 3 x 6 windows. 3-bay west front has first-floor band and moulded cornice, with pierced balustrade and corner pedestals topped with urns. Recessed central bay has a portico in antis with 2 columns and pilasters with Corinthian capitals. On either side, a segment-headed double door. Above, a round-arched triple window with polychrome head, hoodmould and central keystone. Cornice dated 1864 in Roman numerals. Side bays have rusticated pilasters with scroll brackets to the cornice. Single round-arched windows with polychrome heads, keystones and hoodmoulds, and below, triangular-headed windows with hoodmoulds. Each return has a similar single window on each floor. On either side, 6 round-headed windows with keystones and below, 6 triangular-headed windows. East end has a central projection with lean-to roof and a central gable containing a round window. On either side, a single round-headed window. INTERIOR has moulded cornice and cross beam ceiling with oval ventilators. Panelled gallery, curved at the rear, with fleurons and dentillated top edge, carried on twisted cast-iron columns with composite capitals. At each end 2 doors, those to rear with cornices. At the front, enriched panelled choir gallery on cast-iron brackets. Above, panelled elliptical arch with enriched spandrels and panelled pilasters with composite capitals, framing central round window flanked by single round-headed windows. At the rear, central stained-glass window and above, triple round-headed window flanked by similar single windows. Ground floor has stained-glass windows, late C19 and early C20. Gallery side windows have stained-glass memorial panels. Entrance lobbies have wooden dogleg stairs with stick balusters and ramped handrails, and double doors to gallery. FITTINGS: circular rostrum with ornate cast-iron railing. Square wooden pulpit on tapered wooden base flanked by square pedestals with Ionic corner columns and ornate cast-iron railing. On the front of each pedestal, a bronze war memorial plaque under a wooden pediment. Matching communion table. Box pews throughout. MEMORIALS include a resited marble tablet, 1818, and 6 small brasses and tablets. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Williamson E: Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 170).

Listing NGR: SK5416961075

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.