Swaffham Methodist Church

Wesleyan Chapel, built in 1813 by Robert Goodrick, adapted as a Methodist church in 1936.

MATERIALS: The building has a slate roof covering, and gault-brick facade with rendered returns.

PLAN: It is roughly rectangular on plan.

EXTERIOR: The chapel has a two-storey elevation in three bays and faces west to London Street. It has a hipped roof with a slate covering. There is a pediment over the centre bay, and each bay is separated by panelled giant pilasters with pyramidal stone finials. The walls are constructed of gault brick with a red brick eaves cornice to a parapet. The window bays have gauged arched and contain C20 fixed windows with margin glazing and coloured glass; those to the upper floor are round-arched and set within arched recesses. The centre bay at ground-floor level has four slender Roman Doric columns rising to a plain cornice and forming a recessed porch. There are six-panelled doors in the north and south inner walls of the porch, having doorcases with paterae.

INTERIOR: The chapel has a panelled west gallery on three cast-iron columns reached by two stick-baluster staircases, and a suspended C20 timber ceiling.