Methodist Church

The Methodist Church, built in 1864, is constructed from coursed rubble limestone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is rectangular, with an entrance and staircase lobby at the south end and attached rooms at the north end. The south front has three bays, featuring panelled pilasters and round-arched arcading, with the centre bay being smaller. It has enriched keystones and a dentil course below a moulded parapet cornice, which is topped by weathered coping with transverse roll mouldings. Each of the larger bays has a single tall round-arched window, with moulded hoods that project forward and are supported on scrolls. The centre has large 20th-century glazed doors with a round-arched relieving arch above. The side returns to the lobby include an additional single arcaded bay similar to the front but with coursed rubble infill. The main church block has a parapet gable end with dressed coping on stepped bedding and a blocked central oculus. The sides are arcaded and consist of four bays, each featuring a round-arched window in the upper part and square-headed windows in the lower part. A gabled two-storey block extends across the north end, with a large segmental-arched multi-paned sash window on the upper floor centrally located below the gable; the east side has been replaced by glazed doors leading to a 20th-century external staircase.

Inside, the church features painted moulded panelling throughout. There is a gallery on three sides, supported by fluted cast-iron columns with Corinthian capitals. The gallery has a panelled front with a dentil cornice at the base, and the organ is located in an apsidal niche at the centre of the gallery. An octagonal timber pulpit is situated within a balustraded enclosure, all adorned with barleysugar balusters. This church serves as a replacement for a building that was originally opened in 1799 and is part of a group of buildings surrounding the Market Place.