Methodist Church

The Methodist Church in Grange-over-Sands was built in 1874 by architect Ernest Bates, with later additions in the 19th century. It is constructed from snecked limestone rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings and features slate roofs. The church is designed in a Gothic style reminiscent of the 13th and 14th centuries.

The church has a unique layout, with the pews facing a sanctuary at the west end. It consists of a four-bay nave, an east porch with a lean-to roof and doors on the north and south sides, and a chancel-like projection at the west end that originally housed an organ chamber above a vestry. There is also an added vestry extending north from the western bay of the nave, and school rooms that project to the south, which were further extended in the 19th century.

On the exterior, the nave windows are separated by buttresses and consist of three trefoiled lights with plate tracery featuring a trefoil and two quatrefoils. The east gable is topped with a cross finial, and the porch is illuminated by mullioned windows with two, three, and two lights. A foundation stone at the church reads: 'This stone was laid by Mrs Alexander Brogden Sept 11th 1874. Ernest Bates, Architect, Manchester.' The east window of the nave has six lights with Geometrical tracery, while the east wall of the school room features a window with three trefoiled lancet lights rising into a gable, flanked by two-light windows. A porch with a hipped roof is located to the left.

Inside, the walls are plastered, and the arch-braced roof trusses are supported by iron tie rods and wall posts that rise from corbelled shafts with rough stone capitals. Although intended, the decorative carving on the hood mould stops was never completed. At the west end, there is a pointed chamfered arch divided horizontally by a blind arcade, below which are two doorways leading to the former vestry. Above these doorways are the front pipes of the now non-functional organ. The pulpit and sanctuary railings, made of oak in a Gothic style, are 20th-century replacements.