The Harpenden Methodist Church

The Harpenden Methodist Church is a church, church hall, and offices built in 1929 by A Brace. It features a long symmetrical frontage in neo-Tudor style, with a stone facade and red brick wings at each end that have stone dressings. The building has a machine tile roof and stands two storeys high. The gable-ended church is recessed in the center, flanked by stepped buttresses. A notable feature is the 4-light window with curvilinear tracery. The projecting ground floor includes a gabled porch with a moulded arch, with small 2-light mullioned casements on either side. The gable-ended wings have front ground floors that are slightly stepped forward, with thin 2-light casements that have slightly recessed mullions and transoms on their front and side elevations. The wings also feature similar casements of 2-3 lights on the ground floor and single hipped eaves dormers with 4-light casements. These wings terminate in arch-headed openings with continuous stone mouldings.

Inside, the church has a broad nave with five bays and a pointed wooden barrel vault. The side elevations of the nave bays have pointed chamfered arches, which transition to a two-arch open arcade at the transepts. The chancel arch is supported by semi-octagonal piers, and there is a three-arch arcade on the chancel walls with a three-light east window. The narrow aisles feature cross arches at each bay and open into the nave through paired arches in each bay.