Church Hall attached to Trinity Methodist Church

Church Hall attached to Trinity Methodist Church

A Methodist church and attached hall, oriented east-west with the altar at the east end. The church is built in grey-brown stone with Bath stone dressings and slate roofs, featuring some polished granite shafts. The attached two-storey hall to the east is constructed in grey stone with Bath stone dressings, while its rear elevation incorporates yellow brick dressings and quoins.

The church plan comprises a nave of four bays with three-bay aisles to the north and south, west aisle bays, north and south transepts, and a chancel with organ chamber to the north. A tower rises in the south angle between the south transept and aisle. A semi-octagonal porch projects from the west end. The minister's vestry sits between the tower and chancel, with a larger choir vestry to the north of the organ chamber, connected to the minister's vestry by a corridor behind the altar.

The west front features a five-cusped-light window and a semi-octagonal porch with segmentally headed two-light windows. The south elevation displays a clerestorey with three segmentally headed four-light windows, each with smaller inner lights. Below these, the aisles have a west bay set at an angle beneath a stepped crenellated parapet, with three two-light segmentally headed windows articulated by stepped buttresses. The transept gable contains a large four-light window with Bath stone panelling in the apex.

The pinnacled tower features buttresses and a parapet with quatrefoil decoration across three stages, surmounted by a broach spire with lucarnes and an iron weathervane. The bell stage has two two-light windows with quatrefoil panelling below, a band of foiled panel work, and beneath this a broad four-cusped-light window. The lowest tower stage has an entrance doorway flanked by polished pink granite shafts with floral Bath stone capitals, and boarded doors with ornate iron hinges.

The north elevation follows the south elevation but the transept (west side) has a blocked doorway. To the east is a gabled vestry with a three-light window and a small porch with a blocked segmentally headed doorway.

The church and hall stand within an enclosure with a low wall and octagonal gatepiers topped with Bath stone Gothic capstones. A Portland stone cross War Memorial stands to the right of the west front.

Interior: The west porch is separated from the nave by an oak traceried screen. The three-bay nave has a raked wood-block floor with arcades carried on octagonal pink sandstone shafts (St Bees' stone) and foiled panel work in the spandrels. The west crossing piers consist of three grouped octagonal shafts. A panelled and boarded coved ceiling is supported by wall-posts on floral corbels, while the transept roofs feature pointed wooden vaults. The north transept has a broad organ-chamber arch and paired Gothic arches with tracery above leading to the vestry. The south transept contains two Gothic doorways to the vestry and tower porch. The chancel features a tall arch to the organ chamber (north) with a hoodmould and inset granite shafts. The east end contains a wooden Gothic reredos with a reproduction of Leonardo's 'Last Supper'. A polychrome Italian marble pulpit is positioned in the church.

The hall's two-storey south-facing elevation has a central broad six-light Perpendicular window on the first floor, flanked by lower two-light windows to the aisles. The ground floor, partially obscured by a modern brick extension, features a four-light Perpendicular window and doorways with three-centred heads. The rear elevation facing Woodland Place has camber-headed sash windows. The ground floor interior has been modernised. The first floor hall comprises four bays of round-headed arches supported on cast-iron columns, with a longitudinal lantern featuring Tudor arches.