Description

SK 06 80 TOWN OF CHAPEL-EN-LE-FRITH MARKET STREET
8/52 (South Side)
Townend Methodist Church
GV II

Church. c I874. Rock-faced, coursed, squared gritstone. Gritstone
dressings and quoins. Slate roof. Moulded stone copings. Northern
porch, gabled nave with spired tower to north-west corner, transepts,
offices to south. Early C20 north porch with central pointed doorcase,
dripmould over. To either side, single light cusped headed windows. Above,
behind porch, original north window. Pointed head, geometric bar tracery.
Pilasters either side. In gable above, a cusped, circular, blind opening.
Square tower to west with octagonal spire. Cusped stonework to top of square
tower, then tiled section. At base of octagonal spire, a band of quartefoils
in circles. Above, pointed, cusped headed bell openings on all sides. Over-
hanging stone spire above with toothmark decoration. East elevation - cusped
lancet window to north. To south, three stepped buttresses, reaching almost
to eaves level. Three two-light geometric bar tracery windows, one to south side
of each buttress. Transepts have diagonal butresses and central window, similar
to nave windows. Cusped lancets either side. Above, rose window. Interior -
northern gallery with cusped panels, supported by cast iron columns. Contemporary
wooden pews. All windows plate tracery inside. Considerable amount of
contemporary stained glass. C20 pulpit and altar.

Listing NGR: SK0615680848

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26380410

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)