Knowle Methodist Church

BRISTOL

ST67SW WELLS ROAD, Knowle 901-1/56/1561 (West side) 04/03/77 Knowle Methodist Church

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Church. 1904. Snecked Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, tiled roof with copper and shingle details. Cruciform plan with no chancel. Arts and Crafts style. Steeply gabled W end with ashlar bands and an apex cross has a large 6-light window with 2 king mullions and reticulated tracery, and is flanked by angle buttresses to octagonal finials with flared copper caps; in front a gableted porch with a shallow 2-centred arched doorway below a segmental arch with dentils, containing a 2-leaf door with foliate stained glass; flanking parapeted blocks have cinquefoil-headed windows with square heads. N elevation of 3 bays of 2-light windows with reticulated tracery, separated by buttresses, under sprocketed eaves. The banded N transept has a 4-light window. Similar S elevation, and a plain S transept with a spheroid triangular window with trefoils; above the crossing is a steep pyramidal lantern hung with shingles. Attached to the E end is a 2-storey annex with brick gable-end stack: N elevation has cinquefoil-headed windows to the ground floor either side of a wider 3-light window, and 6 flattened trefoil-headed windows to the first floor, with an angle buttress to a bartizon in the angle with the church. INTERIOR: pointed arch below crossing has marble colonnettes with stiff leaf capitals; hammerbeam roof on corbels.

Listing NGR: ST6061870852