The Harpenden Methodist Church

TL 1314 SW 16/50

HARPENDEN HIGH STREET (east side) The Harpenden Methodist Church

II

Church, church hall and offices. 1929 by A Brace. Long symmetrical frontage in neo-Tudor style. Stone facade; wings at each end in red brick with stone dressings. machine tile roof. 2 storeys. Gable-ended church is recessed in centre. Stepped buttresses either side. 4-light window with curvilinear tracery. Projecting ground floor has gabled porch with moulded arch. Small 2-light mullioned casements each side. Gable -ended wings either side have their front ground floors stepped forward slightly. Their front and side elevations have thin 2-light casements with slightly recessed mullions and transoms. The wings at each end have similar casements of 2-3 lights on the ground floor and single hipped eaves dormers with 4-light casements. They terminate in arch-headed openings with continuous stone mouldings. The interior of the church has a broad nave of G bays. Pointed wooden barrel vault. Pointed chamfered arches to the side elevations of the nave bays, changing to a 2-arch open arcade at the transepts. Semi-octagonal piers to the chancel arch. 3-arch arcade to the chancel walls and 3-light E window. The narrow aisles have cross arches at each bay and open into the nave through paired arches in each bay. (Pevsner (1977)).

Listing NGR: TL1345414297