Methodist And United Reformed Church And Railings And Gate Piers To East

The building comprises a Methodist and United Reformed church, constructed in the 1830s. It is located in Buckfastleigh, built on a sloping site that allows access from Chapel Street with steps leading down to a schoolroom situated below the chapel, providing further access from the right return. The church is primarily built from local grey limestone rubble, with some areas stuccoed and blocked out. It features a hipped natural slate roof. A lower, single-storey rectangular meeting room is attached to the front right corner of the chapel, projecting forward from the front elevation and likely dating to the same period as the church.

The chapel is a two-story structure with a gallery. The front elevation of the chapel is symmetrical, with three bays, the central bay broken forward. It includes a plinth, moulded cornice, and clasping pilasters with moulded capitals. An open porch with Tuscan columns is centrally located, flanked by glazed infills. The porch features an entablature with a projecting cornice and a shallow gable parapet. The chapel’s front has paired doors from the 1860s, each with two vertical panels, and an overlight. The ground floor has two early 19th-century hornless sash windows with a 3 over 6-pane configuration. Above, there is a tier of three similar 12-pane sashes. To the right of the chapel, steps lead down to a plain plank door accessing the schoolroom. The meeting room's front elevation is blind, featuring blind arcading with pilasters. The right return of the meeting room is similar, while the rear has two likely early 19th-century 12-pane hornless sashes and two 20th-century basement timber windows with brick surrounds. The right return of the chapel block has four bays with hornless 12-pane sashes servicing the chapel and gallery, alongside two segmental-headed 4 over 8-pane sashes for the schoolroom ground floor. A two-leaf plank door with a 4-pane overlight leads to the schoolroom. A moulded cornice at gallery floor level extends around the rear elevation of the meeting room, suggesting a contemporary build. The left return of the chapel retains early 19th-century 12-pane sashes. The interior is said to be galleried on three sides, supported by fluted columns, with paired stairs leading up from the internal porch incorporating stick balusters.

The right return is bordered by 19th-century cast-iron railings with spear finials and granite gate piers with plain pyramidal caps.