Methodist Church And Churchyard, Walls

The Methodist Church and Churchyard in Walls, dated 1875, is a 3 x 5-bay hall church with a rectangular plan. It features harl-pointed rubble walls adorned with stugged and droved sandstone dressings, a base course, and chamfered arrises around the windows.

The entrance is located in the southwest gable, showcasing a symmetrical, two-leaf vertically-boarded timber door with an iron latch set within a pointed-arched opening. Flanking the entrance are pointed-arched windows, and at the first floor, a stepped three-light lancet window with a hoodmould is inscribed with "WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH." This window rises into the gablehead, which is topped by a gabled bell-cote containing a bell on a rectangular plinth at the apex. The southeast elevation has a five-bay layout, featuring a small pointed-arched window to the right of a vertically-boarded timber door in the outer right bay, with pointed-arched windows in each bay to the left. The northeast gable is a symmetrical, regularly-fenestrated two-storey, two-bay structure with a harled gablehead stack that has two flues.

The principal windows are adorned with leaded glazing and coloured glass, while the northeast gable features 8-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered in purple-grey slate, with ashlar skew-copes and bracketed skewputts.

Inside, the church has timber fittings, including four-panel doors leading to the hall in the vestibule, vertically-boarded wainscoting in the hall, and a panelled and balustraded rectangular enclosure at the north end that contains a balustraded canted pulpit with a vertically-boarded sounding board. The roof is an open timber truss design.

Surrounding the church are the churchyard walls, railings, gates, and gatepiers. The random rubble walls create a rectangular enclosure around the church, with the lower wall on the southwest side topped with sandstone coping and surmounted by wrought-iron railings. The southeast wall is terminated to the south by square stugged sandstone gatepiers with pyramidal caps, with matching gatepiers to the north. A cement-rendered and lined wall links the principal elevations of the church and the manse.