Leitholm U.P. Church, Church Lane, Leitholm

Opened 1835; vestry and entrance hall added 1872; belfry added 1874; gallery installed 1877; later 20th century alterations. Near square-plan 2-storey, 2- by 2-bay church with gabled entrance hall adjoined to front; surmounting belfry; single storey vestry adjoined to left; single storey, lean-to addition to right. Harl-pointed tooled sandstone rubble to original church (coursed render at rear); squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone to later additions; droved sandstone dressings. Droved quoins, droved long and short surrounds to openings; projecting cills.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay entrance hall with steps to modern timber panelled door centred at ground; rectangular plaque above inscribed 1872; single windows at ground in flanking bays; single window centred at 1st floor. Surmounting battered, gabled belfry with swept sandstone coping; plaque dated 1874; bell in place; polygonal sandstone finial with further iron finial above. Single window centred in single storey vestry slightly advanced to outer left. Boarded timber door off-set to left of centre in lean-to addition to right. 2-storey church hall set behind.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: original church with single windows at both floors in both bays. Single storey vestry to outer right.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: 2 large, round-arched windows flanking centre.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: original church with single windows at both floors in both bays. Single storey, lean-to addition to outer left.

Predominantly 6- and 9-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; uPVC windows at rear. Grey slate piended roof; replacement rainwater goods. Rendered wallhead stack to vestry; single circular can.

INTERIOR: galleried interior in situ. Vestibule with boarded timber door accessing vestry to left; stair to upper gallery to right with timber treads, decorative uprights, timber handrail. Timber panelled door accessing nave with boarded timber floor; modern timber dado; timber pews; carved timber pulpit; timber communion table; organ centred in E wall; painted long and short dressings to flanking round-arched windows. Regularly spaced iron columns beneath 3-sided, U-plan gallery; corbelled, timber panelled balcony fronts; tiered pews; boarded timber dado panelling. False ceiling.