Ashburton Methodist Church

ASHBURTON

SX7569 WEST STREET 849-1/10/209 (South side) 07/08/51 Ashburton Methodist Church (Formerly Listed as: WEST STREET (South side) Methodist Church)

GV II

Formerly known as: Methodist Chapel WEST STREET. Wesleyan chapel, now church. Dated 1835, but section immediately behind the facade appears to be mid or late C19. Front rendered; right side and rear solid roughcast; left side stone rubble, with red-brick window surrounds to mid/late C19 section. Hipped slated roofs. Portico at front, with side doors opening on to passages which in turn lead to chapel at rear. Between the passages a schoolroom, and above them both a meeting room. Chapel galleried on N, E, and W sides; rostrum on S with organ behind it in a small rectangular projection. 3 bay Ionic portico with triangular pediment. Behind it 2 doors and a window with cornices on consoles. Window has 6-paned sashes. Doorways have 4-panelled double doors and patterned fanlights. Upper storey has 3 round-arched windows with bracketed sills and moulded architraves; small-paned glazing. Side walls of mid/late C19 section have small-paned wood casements. Side and rear walls of chapel have 8-paned sashes in recessed box-frames, except that the lower sashes of the gallery windows have only 4 panes; rear gallery windows round-arched with fixed small-paned sashes. Interior: galleries have enriched iron columns and panelled fronts; rear gallery curved to make a 'U'-shape. Wooden rostrum with ornate iron balusters to stairs. At rear of chapel 2 open-well wood stairs to gallery; thin, square balusters, handrail ramped up over column-newels. Ceiling has moulded cornice and 2 round ventilators; these have Gothic-patterned iron grilles and key-pattern plaster surrounds. Meeting room has 2 C19 chimneypieces with bracketed mantelshelves. At S end 2 round-arched doorways with moulded architraves.

Listing NGR: SX7555869807