Wesley Church And Attached Library

KING STREET 1. 942 (south side) Wesley Church and TL 4558 NE attached Library 4/716A II GV 2. Church. 1913 by Gordon and Gunton of Cambridge in the Perpendicular Revival Style. Ashlar with slate roofs. Moulded coped gables with kneelers and Grass finials. Moulded plinth. Nave with aisles and porches, transepts and chancel. North front has central doorway within projecting gabled porch with diagonal buttresses. Eitherside are four light mullion windows. Above,3, three light triangular headed windows in deeply moulded surrounds with very unusual tracery. Above again a crenellated parapet. Flanking this front are the sides of the porches, each with a pair of two light mullion windows and a crenellated parapet. West front has a projecting gabled porch to the north with an elaborate arch and a four light mullioned window above, plus fine octagonal corner turrets. 4 shallow pointed arched windows to the west aisle, each with 5 pointed lights. The clerestory has 5 pairs of two light panel tracery windows. The transepts have a single large rose window each, with very elaborate and unusual tracery. The east side is identical to the west. INTERIOR: Inside walls are faced with red brick, with ashlar dressings. 3 bay nave plus wider single bay transept arch. All moulded shallow pointed arches which die into the moulded piers and responds. Similar shallow pointed chancel arch. Elaborate Perpendicular Style wooden roof. Fine stone pulpit, lecturn and font. West gallery. Contemporary wooden pews,choir stalls, altar rail and altar. Attached to south is a single storey grey brick library with 3 canted bay windows.

Listing NGR: TL4542558694