Milborne Port Methodist Church And Schoolrooms

The Milborne Port Methodist Church and Schoolrooms were built in 1866. They are constructed of Ham stone ashlar with Doulting stone dressings, and have a Welsh slate roof with alternating purple and grey bands. The building is in a 19th-century Gothic style, characterized by unusually large mouldings.

The South front is a three-bay gabled elevation, six bays deep, with various extensions to the North. Details include a plinth, buttresses with offsets and pinnacles, string courses, a central gable with a cross finial, and a corner bell turret in the first bay. The street-facing facade features blind double lancet windows and rounded panels under a pointed label in bays one and three. Bay two has two doorways with a central glazed roundel set under a triangular label over traceried panels, flanked by lancet windows. Above, a large rose window has curvilinear tracery, while the gable’s crown features a small triple lancet panel and a cross finial. The corner bell turret has two stages of lancet windows on an octagonal plan; the lower stage is blind, and the upper stage has gables around a short spirelet. Flank elevations feature two-light pointed arched windows with roundels and transomes.

The interior has a pointed barrel rib and panel ceiling, a pointed arched recess in the North wall for the organ, a deep gallery over the South entrance, and curved choir and minister's galleries opposite. These galleries are largely unaltered. To the North is a schoolroom and associated spaces. The church has a prominent position on a hillside.