Barnby Gate Methodist Church And Attached Railings

Barnby Gate Methodist Church and attached railings is a brick building with ashlar dressings, dating to around 1845. It is situated in Newark on Trent. The church has a plinth and a coped parapet. The front elevation has quoins and an entablature, with two higher sections in the parapet. The upper storey features four round-headed sash windows arranged 1:2:1, alternating with paired pilasters. Below, a full-width entablature sits above a pair of flat-headed windows with moulded surrounds, flanked by single projecting Doric porticos with pairs of round and square piers. Each portico features a pair of panelled doors with overlights and moulded surrounds. The sides have full-height recesses with moulded round heads and linked hood moulds, each containing a round-headed sash window; the right-hand window on each side is filled with stained glass. Below these recesses are two further stained glass windows flanked by two glazing bar sashes. The east end has four round-headed windows, and below them, four smaller windows, with the left-hand window partly blocked and the central pair boarded up.

Inside, there is an oval panelled gallery supported by cast iron columns with acanthus tops, and a moulded cross-beam ceiling with rosettes and a modillion frieze with guilloche. The ground floor has two six-panel doors with cornices at each end. South-facing windows include two mid-20th century stained glass windows, and the west end contains two late 19th-century memorial windows. The first-floor windows have linked hood moulds. A north-facing entrance hall contains two open-well staircases with vase and stem balusters. Fittings include a painted wooden Classical-style pulpit with a communion table on scroll brackets, flanked by curved stairs. Other fittings include a cast iron pulpit rail and stair balustrades, and a Classical organ case above the pulpit, with a projecting centre and pilasters topped with urns. The ground floor retains fitted box pews, and the gallery has curved benches, with late 19th-century cast iron music stands near the organ. A Classical-style wooden war memorial tablet is also present.

Outside, a round-cornered dwarf stone wall is topped with a cast iron spearhead railing, which has been partly renewed.