Methodist Chapel And Youth Centre

This is a late 19th-century Methodist chapel with an attached schoolroom, manse, and hall, located in Lynton and Lynmouth. The chapel was built in 1870, with the house likely dating from the later 19th century, and the hall added in 1907.

The chapel is constructed from slate-stone and granite rubble with a slate roof. It features three bays across two storeys, emphasised by four buttresses, rendered in the upper half of the structure with two offsets. It has three wide lancet windows with cast-iron small-scale diamond-paned glazing to cusped heads. Below the windows are two plank doors with plain transom lights and three plain casements, with a blocked window directly above the entrance door. A chamfered offset is visible between the floors, and the eaves have a projecting gutter. A stone inscription records the chapel was laid by Mr John Glidden on July 5, 1870. To the left of the chapel is a rubble gable, behind a sweeping roof and recessed door, with a three-light casement. The brought-forward gable end features a large four-light casement with transom to a segmental head.

The adjacent hall, set gable-end to the street, has a recessed door and a three-light casement. The house, set gable-end to the street and raised on a terrace, is constructed from rubble with brick dressings and a slate roof, containing three large plain sash windows on two storeys, with a central door. The gable displays a tripartite plain sash to the top floor, and a deeper one at the first floor, above a central door with small flanking sashes. The gable also has a scalloped barge-board. A lower link building connects the house to the right gable of the chapel.

The interior of the chapel is characterised by a four-bay layout with a flat-pitched ceiling. A cast-iron vent is located in the second bay. The plaster walls have a matchboard dado. Original pews remain, with rear pew access via doors from the lobby. A reading desk features stairs with a cast-iron double-S balustrade to a swept mahogany handrail, and provides access to a small gabled inner pew through a six-panel door. The hall, now divided into two smaller dormitories, features an arch-braced, boarded roof and a large window to the rear gable. The interior of the house was not inspected.