Hinde Street Methodist Church

TQ 2881 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER HINDE STREET, Wl 55/24 26.4.78 Hinde Street Methodist Church G.V. II Church. 1881-87 by James Weir. Gault brick, channelled to ground floor, and brown stone dressings; slate roof. Corner site. A classical church design with some English Baroque references. The front has slightly projecting, central, 2-storeyed, pedimented entrance portico flanked by pavilions (reminiscent of St. Paul's Cathedral and similarly with paired columns and carved tympanum). Rising over western corner pavilion is a 3-stage octagonal tower and spire, set above 4 solid finialed pinnacles at corners; lower stage has semicircular arched windows with engaged Corinthian columns at angles supporting entablature and balustrade; smaller middle stage with narrow semicircular arched openings; spire stage supported by consoles above pilasters. Beyond corner pavilion the 4-bay return to Thayer Street sets back, with ground floor windows, as on front, with cornices on consoles, while the gallery windows have dentilled pediments on pilasters and inset balustrades; the bays are divided by superimposed orders of Doric and Corinthian engaged columns; crowning entablature and balustraded parapet. The eastern corner pavilion originally intended to have balancing tower and spire. For Church House see under No. 19 Thayer Street, WI.

Listing NGR: TQ2838481427