United Methodist Church And Church Hall Adjoining To East

The United Methodist Church and adjoining Church Hall date to 1909-10, built on the site of an earlier chapel, and possessing a similar appearance to the 1876 chapel with the addition of a tower. Designed by Samuel Parsons and constructed by Parsons and Glover of Holsworthy, the buildings are in an Early English style. The church is constructed of bath stone with Plymouth limestone dressings to the facade, with roughcast returns, and has slate roofs, decorative ridge tiles, and crocketed finials flanking the gable ends of the facade. The plan includes a four-bay apsidal basilica with a gallery above the entrance (south), a vastry in the southwest corner, stairs to the gallery via the southeast tower, and a church hall abutting the east.

The gabled facade features a five-light window above a gabled porch inscribed "United Methodist Church 1910," double doors, and flanking two-light windows under a continuous hoodmould. Shallow raking buttresses are present, alongside a two-light window at the base of a two-stage octagonal crenellated tower with a spire, louvred bell openings, and a clock. A depressed pointed arch opening leads to an alley between the church and hall. The gable-fronted hall also features a two-light window over a gabled porch, flanked by two-light windows.

The church interior is rendered and contains a fine serpentine-curve gallery with pierced decorative wooden panels supported by cast iron columns with decorative capitals. The roof is a five-bay hammer-beam construction with pierced braces, corbels of green marble, metal ties, and four trusses converging at the apsidal end, with a ceiled and boarded finish. Other notable features include a pitch pine pulpit, communion table, and benches. The organ, originally built in 1887, was later enlarged, and its pipes are stencilled. The church holds a collection of stained glass, two windows of which are said to have been removed from the Wesleyan chapel in Chapel Street, Holsworthy, and the remaining windows incorporate pastel-coloured glass in an Art Nouveau style, with internal doors also part-glazed with coloured glass. The hall has a king-post roof and is otherwise featureless. The church represents a good example of an early 20th-century Methodist church with a significant community involvement.