Southfield Methodist Church And Chapel House

The building comprises an Independent chapel dating from 1823 and a caretaker’s house built around the 1830s. It was used as a Bible Christian chapel from 1884, and altered in 1901, as noted by Pevsner. The chapel is constructed of local red breccia rubble, with a rendered front elevation. It has slate roofs; the chapel roof is hipped at the ends and has a false gable to the front. The plan is rectangular, with the chapel consisting of two bays, facing onto Southfield Road, and extending to the rear onto Colley End Road. A double-depth caretaker’s house adjoins on the north-east side and projects forward.

The chapel's front elevation, which dates from the 1901 alterations, features a narthex across the entire front. It has deep eaves and verges supported by paired brackets. The chapel is in a Gothic style and has a central three-light window with intersecting tracery, flanked by taller similar windows, all with plain stuccoed bands around the window heads. A band of incised lettering reads ‘Bible Christian Chapel’ above the central window. The narthex has a central porch with a tall gable and cross finial, an arched doorway with a hoodmould, and a plank door. It is flanked by small, trefoil-headed timber windows with hoodmoulds. The outer bays of the narthex are gabled with bargeboards and roundel windows with simple architraves. The left return and rear wall of the chapel have two tall arched windows with Y tracery.

The caretaker’s house is three storeys high and has a two-window front. It also features deep eaves on paired moulded brackets. A recessed 20th-century front door is located on the right, with a similar front door to the right return. The windows are small-paned sashes, including a tripartite sash on the ground floor of the front elevation.

The chapel interior has a plain ceiling with round ventilation grilles. A timber preaching gallery has a brattishing with blind arches and keyblocks. There are 19th-century benches with shaped ends and 19th-century white marble wall monuments, the earliest dating from around 1849. According to Pevsner, the building is the oldest Nonconformist chapel in the area.