Methodist Church And Attached School

This is a Methodist church with an attached school, built in 1814 and subsequently altered, including the addition of a portico in 1904. The church occupies a set back position behind a small paved area.

The church itself is stuccoed, while the portico is constructed from red brick in a stretcher bond pattern, featuring Bath stone dressings and columns. The roof is concealed behind a parapet. The attached school, dating to 1876, is built of Flemish bond brick with stone dressings.

The church's front facade is five bays, with the central three bays projecting slightly. A later portico provides a central entrance with steps leading up to three recessed bays, now glazed, and supported by fluted Ionic columns. The outer bays of the portico are brick with stone pilasters and round-headed windows with stone architraves, keyblocks, and stone aprons, containing square leaded panes. Above the cornice, the central three bays have recessed panels below the pedimented gable, which displays a datestone indicating 1814. The original section of the church has five round-headed windows; the centre window has a keyblock, and the central three have recessed arches. The outer bays include a parapet that rises to meet the gable.

The right return side of the church is stuccoed and has two tiers of blocked-out round-headed windows with glazing bars. The school, to the rear, runs parallel to the street and has a four-window front with an open porch to the left, featuring a deep cornice on columns and a two-leaf door with glazed panels. A large cornice is present at first floor level. Ground floor windows have nowy-headed cornices on triglyph brackets. The ground floor windows are casements with two panes per light. The first-floor windows feature continuous nowy-headed cornices with keyblocks and bull's-eye windows in the spandrels containing fixed six-pane glazing.

The interior, according to Pevsner, retains original galleries supported by iron columns on three sides, and includes a late 19th-century organ recess with two Ionic columns in antis. Historical records suggest that the site was previously used by one of John Wesley’s original congregations, and that the chapel was originally accessed via a narrow passage.