Hartpury Methodist Chapel

Hartpury Methodist Chapel, dating from 1887 (as indicated by the foundation stone), is a former Wesleyan, now Methodist, place of worship. The building is constructed of English bond red brick with blue brick and stone dressings, and has a tiled roof with crested ridges. It is a four-bay structure of two storeys, with the lower level serving as a Sunday school.

The gable facing the road has splayed blue brickwork at the top of the plinth. Square set buttresses define the corners and the centre, with stone offsets. Two twin lancet windows are positioned beneath a circular window, which itself is framed by two plain blue-brick bands and a louvred lancet above. A dentil verge is present, slightly returned at the foot, culminating in a weathervane at the apex. A porch is located on the right return, reached by six stone steps, and features a 2-centred arch to the doorway with a brick band at the springing level, and a dentil verge topped with a terracotta finial. A double boarded door is within. The right return of the chapel features buttresses between each bay, framing twin lancet windows. A chimney is visible on the right-hand gable. Below the chapel, two twin-lancet windows are present on the right, with a boarded door and plain fanlight under a flat-pointed head beyond.

Inside the chapel, the floor is boarded; the dado is vertically boarded, above which is red brick with yellow and blue brick dressings paired to form alternate voussoirs around the windows. A cogged course of bricks is visible in the side walls above the windows. Original stained pews remain, alongside a pulpit at the right-hand end, accessed by steps with trefoil-headed panelling. A raised enclosure in front has a timber rail supported by ironwork with leaf tops. A large, pointed arch half-fills the wall behind the pulpit, filled with cream glazed tiles bearing a text and decoration. The roof is boarded with exposed quasi-hammerbeam trusses, incorporating an iron rod completing the tie beam and an iron 'king-post' centrally. The Sunday school below has three bays at the road end, a row of cast-iron columns running down the centre, a lobby, kitchen, and vestry at the far end, with all the glass obscured or coloured. The building is an unaltered example of a late 19th-century non-conformist chapel and is prominent within the landscape.