Horrabridge Methodist Church

This is a Methodist church, dated 1910, with attached church rooms built around the same time. It is located on Station Road, Horrabridge. The church is constructed of coursed slatestone rubble with granite dressings, limestone window dressings, and brick dressings to the church rooms. The roof is slate with raised coped verges. Built in the Perpendicular style, the church’s auditorium is oriented north/south, with a transept and porch to the west, and a schoolroom and vestry attached to the west.

The west front has four bays. The left bay features a trefoil-headed lancet window with a hood mould. The second bay has a two-centred arched window of three lights with trefoil heads within mullions and a hood mould, with a blind lancet above in the gable. The third features a similar flat-headed three-light window, and the final bay a single-storey porch with double doors in a moulded four-centred arched surround, gabled over to the inner. A triple lancet with trefoil heads sits in a flat-headed surround to the front, with a single lancet to the outer side. Diagonal buttresses decorate the porch, and a continuous plinth displays foundation stones with initials and dates. The north elevation is canted at a higher roof level to the left, forming an apse with a two-centred arched two-light window with a quatrefoil in the tracery, flanked by single lights. The roof is hipped over this apse. The attached church rooms, originally a schoolroom, are one-and-a-half storeys high and have a large six-pane light and a half-glazed and two-panelled door, with brick dressings. The south elevation has a wide centre bay that projects slightly, with a large central four-light window with a through mullion and Y-tracery, complimented by single trefoil lancets to either side. A dressed granite plinth and a blind lancet are in the gable. The east elevation has two flat-headed windows, both with through mullions, one two-light and one three-light, mirroring those on the front. The church room to the rear has two large six-pane lights and a small gabled porch with a plain door and a two-light trefoil-headed window in the gable, with brick dressings. Initialled granite foundation stones form a string course below the window cills.

Inside, the main church has a three-bay roof with upper and lower arched braces, collars, and two rows of purlins. A tall two-centred arch at the north end defines the apse, which has decorative braces with pierced trefoils. The organ chamber is located to the west, in the transept. The church features plain pitch pine pews and an octagonal oak pulpit. The windows contain stained glass in an art nouveau style, with one east window dated 1946.