Pirton Methodist Church

PIRTON HIGH STREET TL 1431 (South side)

7/163 Pirton Methodist Church - - II

Methodist church. 1906. Probably by George Baines & Son of London who designed the Methodist Church at Breachwood Green in similar style and materials in 1904. Red brick and slated steep roofs hipped W crosswing. Terracotta architectural features to E front. A tall single-storey Arts and Crafts building extending E-W, with taller crosswing at W projecting to N and S with central gable on W. Decorative tile cresting with finials. Tall tapered square finial with square overhanging cap to W end of main roof. Shaped rafter ends overhang at eaves. 4 windows to each sidewall each of 3-lights. Architecturally elaborate E front with terracotta dressings. Gable parapet with flanking buttresses. Semi-octagonal battlemented wide porch up 2 steps, itself with diagonal buttresses flanking double-doors with glazed panels. Segmental arched moulded head with luxuriant ogee finial rising above parapet. Flanking buttresses have terracotta niches with segmental caps. Ogee in square cinquefoil tracery windows in canted sides of porch. Tall 5-lights large pointed window in E gable. Wider central light, Perp traceried head, drips, and 3 slots in apex of gable. Stained glass glazing. Cross-gabled tops and luxuriant finials to corner buttresses. Terracotta buff string course and jambs to main door. Art Nouveau pierced lotus pattern vents in terracotta between side windows. 3-lights traceried W end window with segmental head and stained glass. (Kelly (1914)192-3).

Listing NGR: TL1455831843