Central Methodist Chapel

Central Methodist Chapel is a Methodist chapel built between 1878 and 1880, with a vestry added in 1886 and alterations made around 1912. The chapel features ritual east end fittings from 1924 and modifications to the ritual west end in 1962. Constructed from Torquay limestone with Bathstone dressings and slate roofs, this chapel is designed in a free Italianate Romanesque style. It has a shallow chancel, a gabled porch on the ritual south side, and shallow gabled transepts towards the ritual west end.

Notable architectural features include a moulded impost string at the sill level and a wide band under the moulded string at the springing of the window arches, which are adorned with wide stone architraves. The gables are coped and feature a blind round-headed east window, with the central light flanked by engaged columns that have waterleaf capitals. There is a carved angel in the ritual east gable of the nave. The chapel has five plus two windows on the ritual north side, including a rose window in the gable of the transept. A moulded stone chimney on the ritual north side is corbelled out below the impost band.

The porch on the ritual south side has a round-headed doorway with the date 1880 above it, and a single light round-headed window in the gable with carved label stops. The lean-to vestry on the ritual south side features a round-headed doorway, two rectangular recessed windows, and two circular windows within wide stone architraves. An addition at the ritual west end is gabled to the west, maintaining the Romanesque style but lacking an impost band. The roof has ventilators under hipped slate roofs.

Inside, the chapel has a flat rib and panel roof. The ritual east end fittings from around 1924 include a carved rostrum, and there is an organ located in the chancel. Originally, the church functioned as a church with a schoolroom to the west, and the church was extended into the former schoolroom around 1912. In 1962, the former west porch was modified to create an entrance hall.