Ely Methodist Church

Ely Methodist Church is a late 19th-century building constructed of Pennant stone with Bath stone ashlar dressings and red tile roofs. The design incorporates a Free late Gothic style with influences from the Arts and Crafts movement. The gabled facade is divided into three sections by ashlar-faced buttresses, topped with a coped gable and a large cross finial. Ashlar flush bands run across the facade, as does the sill and springing level of the main window. A narrow vent is positioned at the apex of the gable.

The central feature is a broad, four-light Gothic window with tracery; the main lights are cusped, and there are three cusped top-lights, all contained within a cambered head and a flat-headed surround. At ground floor level, the church is flanked by a Gothic porch and lobbies, with pyramid-roofed single-storey wings on either side. The porch is ashlar, gabled with cross-gabled flanking piers, panel tracery in the main gable, and a cross finial above. Smaller finials are present on the caps of the projecting piers. A broad, Tudor-arched moulded doorway is decorated with florid motifs in the spandrels, leading to heavy, double-panelled doors. Flanking flat-roofed lobbies each contain a three-light mullioned window with cusped, cambered-headed lights. The single-storey wings each have pyramid-hipped roofs, with a finial (missing from the right wing). They feature a flat-headed, three-light mullioned window and buttresses at the angles.

The sides of the church follow a lean-to aisle and clerestorey design before a projecting double-gable 'transept'. Plain windows are set beyond the transept, which has a hipped end to the main roof. The aisle has two three-light windows under the eaves, and the clerestorey has a single three-light window below the main eaves. The transepts have slate roofs, coped gables, and ashlar in the apex double gablet decorated with panel tracery, matching that of the front porch. Clasping angle buttresses support paired, long, two-light traceried windows with segmental-pointed heads. To the left of the east transept are a pair of plain windows with 20th-century replacement lights.

The rear elevation is stuccoed and has undergone modern alterations.

The interior, noted from a 1999 inspection, was subdivided in the later 20th century. The entrance end remains original, featuring a single end gallery and three-bay timber Gothic arcades to the aisles. A wall was built across the chapel before the transepts, with a pulpit reset in front of a modern wall. The gallery has a single column and a painted timber front with pierced Gothic cast-iron uprights, double-curved in profile. Simple Gothic arcades employ painted timber octagonal posts with caps extending up to similar caps under the clerestorey, adorned with plain spandrel panels pierced with trefoils. The glass incorporates Arts and Crafts motifs in blue and green. The pulpit, presumably originally raised higher, is elaborate Gothic in style, constructed from pitch-pine with traceried panelled sides and front, and a projecting book rest. Stairways on either side have iron balustrades matching the ironwork of the end gallery. Pews have been removed, and the end of the original chapel has been altered.