Wesley Church And Attached Library

Wesley Church and the attached library, located on King Street, were built in 1913 by Gordon and Gunton of Cambridge in the Perpendicular Revival Style. The church features ashlar stonework and slate roofs, with moulded coped gables that have kneelers and grass finials, as well as a moulded plinth. It has a nave with aisles and porches, transepts, and a chancel. The north front includes a central doorway set within a projecting gabled porch supported by diagonal buttresses, flanked by four-light mullion windows. Above this, there are three triangular-headed windows with deeply moulded surrounds and unique tracery, topped by a crenellated parapet. The sides of the porches each have a pair of two-light mullion windows and a crenellated parapet. The west front features a projecting gabled porch to the north with an elaborate arch and a four-light mullioned window above, along with fine octagonal corner turrets. There are four shallow pointed arched windows in the west aisle, each with five pointed lights, and the clerestory has five pairs of two-light panel tracery windows. Each transept has a large rose window with elaborate and unusual tracery. The east side mirrors the west side.

Inside, the walls are faced with red brick and have ashlar dressings. The nave consists of three bays plus a wider single bay for the transept arch, with moulded shallow pointed arches that die into moulded piers and responds. The chancel arch is similarly designed. The interior features an elaborate Perpendicular Style wooden roof, a fine stone pulpit, lectern, and font, as well as a west gallery and contemporary wooden pews, choir stalls, altar rail, and altar. Attached to the south is a single-storey library made of grey brick, which has three canted bay windows.