Ashburton Methodist Church

Ashburton Methodist Church, formerly known as the Methodist Chapel on West Street, is a Wesleyan chapel dated 1835, although the section immediately behind the facade appears to be from the mid or late 19th century. The front of the building is rendered, while the right side and rear are finished in solid roughcast. The left side features stone rubble with red-brick window surrounds from the mid to late 19th century. The church has hipped slated roofs.

At the front, there is a portico with side doors that open onto passages leading to the chapel at the rear. Between these passages is a schoolroom, with a meeting room above. The chapel is galleried on the north, east, and west sides, with a rostrum on the south side and an organ located behind it in a small rectangular projection. The portico consists of three bays with Ionic columns and a triangular pediment. Behind the portico are two doors and a window adorned with cornices on consoles. The window features six-paned sashes, while the doorways have four-panelled double doors and patterned fanlights.

The upper storey has three round-arched windows with bracketed sills and moulded architraves, all with small-paned glazing. The side walls of the mid to late 19th-century section have small-paned wood casements. The side and rear walls of the chapel contain eight-paned sashes in recessed box frames, except for the lower sashes of the gallery windows, which have only four panes. The rear gallery windows are round-arched with fixed small-paned sashes.

Inside, the galleries are supported by enriched iron columns with panelled fronts, and the rear gallery is curved to form a 'U' shape. The wooden rostrum features ornate iron balusters on the stairs. At the rear of the chapel, there are two open-well wooden stairs leading to the gallery, with thin square balusters and a handrail that ramps up over column-newels. The ceiling has a moulded cornice and two round ventilators, which are decorated with Gothic-patterned iron grilles and key-pattern plaster surrounds. The meeting room contains two 19th-century chimneypieces with bracketed mantelshelves, and at the south end, there are two round-arched doorways with moulded architraves.