Description

EAST STREET
1.
5113
(North Side)
Lindley
Lindley Methodist Church
SE 1118 20/470
II
2.
1867. Chancel, vestry and "north-east" transept designed by the Manchester
architect Edgar Wood, and built in 1895. Hammer-dressed stone. Pitched slate
roof. Hall church, with "west" transept surmounted by low tower with pyramidal
slate roof and finial on "south" side. 6-bay nave. Buttresses, with gabled
tops at west end. 2 storey "west" end, string at eaves level. 1st floor has
windows with Geometrical bar tracery, 4-light to nave, 2-light to tower:
oculi above each. Ground floor has central 2-centred door with hoodmould,
moulded surround and plate cusps, 2 pointed lancets with Geometrical plate
tracery, and 2 blocked doors either side, with segment-shaped Caernarvon lintels
and 2-centred moulded relieving arches with hoodmoulds. Aisle windows have
transoms and bar tracery. "East" window has late C19 Decorated bar tracery,
and reset, the date stone of the original 1795 church, inscribed (in lettering
characteristic of each period) "The Wesleyan Church. Anno Domini 1795. Re-erected
1867. Chancel 1895".
Edgar Wood had married into the Sykes family of Lindley, whose church this
was.

Listing NGR: SE1186618505

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26427645

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record