Barnby Gate Methodist Church And Attached Railings

NEWARK ON TRENT

SK8053NW BARNBY GATE 619-1/9/62 (North East side) 19/05/71 Barnby Gate Methodist Church and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: NEWARK BARNBY GATE Methodist Church)

GV II

Methodist church and attached railings. c 1845. Brick with ashlar dressings. Roof not visible. Plinth and coped parapet. 2 storeys; 4x6 bays. Front has quoins and entablature with 2 higher sections in the parapet. Upper storey has 4 round headed glazing bar sashes arranged 1:2:1, alternating with paired pilasters. Below, under a full-width entablature, a pair of flat headed windows with moulded surrounds, flanked by single projecting Doric porticos with pairs of round and square piers. Each has a pair of panelled doors with overlights and moulded surrounds. Sides have full-height recesses with moulded round heads and linked hood moulds. Each has a round headed glazing bar sash, the right one with stained glass. Below them, a pair of stained glass windows flanked by 2 glazing bar sashes. East end has 4 round headed windows and below, 4 smaller windows, the left one partly blocked and the central pair boarded up. Interior has oval panelled gallery carried on cast iron columns with acanthus tops. Moulded cross-beam ceiling with rosettes and modillion frieze with guilloche. ground floor has at either end two 6-panel doors with cornices. South side has 2 mid C20 stained glass windows. West end has 2 late C19 memorial windows. First floor windows have linked hood moulds. North 1941. Entrance hall has 2 open well staircases with vase and stem balusters. Fittings include painted wooden Classical style pulpit with communion table on scroll brackets, and curved flanking stairs. Pulpit rail, communion rail and stair balustrades in cast iron. Above the pulpit, a Classical organ case with projecting centre and pilasters topped with urns. Ground floor has fitted box pews and gallery has curved benches, those nearest the organ with late C19 cast iron music stands. Classical style wooden war memorial tablet. Outside, round-cornered dwarf stone wall with cast iron spearhead railing, partly renewed.

Listing NGR: SK8006853841

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.